A small medicine in pill form. In everyday Japanese, 錠剤 is often the more general word for a tablet, while ピル can sound like a loanword-style or product-like term.
birth-control pill; oral contraceptive; the pill
Colloquial shorthand for an oral contraceptive; common in expressions such as 低用量ピル and ピルを服用する.
Please take the pill according to the doctor's instructions.
The doctor prescribed a small pill.
She is taking a low-dose birth-control pill.
I consulted a doctor about the pill.
I had the pill prescribed at the OB-GYN.
ピル (pill) and ビル (building) sound and look almost identical to learners but refer to completely unrelated things.
lock; padlock · tablet; pill
Katakana medical term. No language of origin is specified, so the historical derivation is not stated here.