medication

C7482
concept

A medication is a substance or combination of substances administered to diagnose, treat, prevent, or alleviate symptoms of disease or medical conditions in humans or animals.

All labels observed (30)

Label Occurrences
medication canonical 21
antiviral medication 5
over-the-counter medicine 4

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: medication
Generated description
A medication is a substance or combination of substances administered to diagnose, treat, prevent, or alleviate symptoms of disease or medical conditions in humans or animals.

Instances (56)

Instance Via concept surface
carbamazepine mood stabilizer
danazol
surface form: Danazol
fenfluramine
Bromo-Seltzer over-the-counter medicine
Gaviscon over-the-counter medicine
Mucinex over-the-counter drug