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Medication vs Triptan - What's the difference?

medication | triptan |

As nouns the difference between medication and triptan

is that medication is a medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient while triptan is any of a family of tryptamine-based drugs used as abortive medication in the treatment of migraine and cluster headaches.

medication

English

Noun

(wikipedia medication) (medications)
  • A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient
  • The administration of medicine

    • Related terms

    * medic * medicine * medicament * medicate * medicinal * premedication

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    triptan

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia triptan)
  • Any of a family of tryptamine-based drugs used as abortive medication in the treatment of migraine and cluster headaches.

    • Derived terms

    * almotriptan * eletriptan * frovatriptan * naratriptan * rizatriptan * sumatriptan * zolmitriptan