medicine; pharmaceutical drugs; medical treatment
Formal or technical term covering medicines and pharmaceutical products, and by extension medicine or medical treatment. In everyday speech, 薬 is more common for an individual drug, and 医療 for medical care.
The company is developing pharmaceuticals for cancer treatment.
Advances in medicine have broadened the treatment options.
medical practice and dispensing; medicine and pharmacy
Institutional use referring to the relationship or division between medical practice and the dispensing of drugs. Most familiar in fixed compounds such as 医薬分業.
As the separation of medical practice and dispensing has advanced, more people now take prescriptions to pharmacies.
薬 is the everyday word for a specific medicine or drug, whereas 医薬 is a formal, institutional term used in official or technical contexts.
医療 refers broadly to medical care and healthcare services, while 医薬 focuses specifically on medicines and the medicine-pharmacy relationship.
medical and pharmaceutical products; medicines; drugs
god of medicine
separation of medical and dispensary practice; separation of prescribing and dispensing
quasi-drug; medicated product
class 2 drug; category 2 OTC medicine
medical representative; pharmaceutical sales representative
Sino-Japanese compound of 医, associated with medicine or medical practice, and 薬, meaning medicine or drug. The spelling transparently reflects the medical and pharmaceutical meanings.