anticoagulant vs medication

anticoagulant and medication both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
anticoagulant	Yes	No	No	No
medication	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, medication is a hypernym of anticoagulant; that is, medication is a word with a broader meaning than anticoagulant:

anticoagulant: medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood
medication: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease

Other hypernyms of anticoagulant include medicament, medicinal drug, medicine.

anticoagulant (noun)	medication (noun)
medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood	the act of treating with medicines or remedies
	(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease