oral medication
Medicine you swallow
Oral medication is medicine taken by mouth—swallowed as pills, capsules, or liquids rather than injected, inhaled, or applied to the skin.
The term appears in medical contexts to distinguish from other routes of administration: The doctor switched him from IV antibiotics to oral medication.
- tabletFlat portable computing device
- capsuleEnclosed dose container
- pill bottleMedication storage container
- syrupThick sugar liquid
- take with foodMedication timing instruction
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oral medicationinjection
Syringe-delivered dose
intramuscular injection · topical medication · subcutaneous injection · suppository · transdermal patch
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