noun
oral medicine; internal medicine
Refers to medicine taken by mouth, as opposed to injections, topical creams, or suppositories. Common in medical and everyday contexts.
風邪には飲み薬がよく処方される。
Oral medicine is often prescribed for colds.
この飲み薬は食後に飲んでください。
Please take this oral medicine after meals.
Compound of 飲み (nomi, 'drinking', the continuative form of 飲む) + 薬 (kusuri, 'medicine'). The reading のみぐすり is a standard rendaku (sequential voicing) form.