oral medicine; internal medicine
Refers to medicine taken by mouth, as opposed to injections, topical creams, or suppositories. Common in medical and everyday contexts.
Oral medicine is often prescribed for colds.
Please take this oral medicine after meals.
Standard kanji spelling; the most common written form.
Less common abbreviated kanji form; may be encountered but 飲み薬 is preferred.
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.