医い薬やく

noun

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.

• その企き業ぎょうはがん治ち療りょう向むけの医い薬やく品ひんを開かい発はつしている。

  The company is developing pharmaceuticals for cancer treatment.

• 医い薬やくの進しん歩ぽで、治ち療りょうの選せん択たく肢しが広ひろがった。

  Advances in medicine have broadened the treatment options.

noun

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.

• 医い薬やく分ぶん業ぎょうが進すすみ、処しょ方ほう箋せんを持もって薬やっ局きょくへ行いく人ひとが増ふえた。

  As the separation of medical practice and dispensing has advanced, more people now take prescriptions to pharmacies.