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Medicine vocabulary — A1

Medicine vocabulary for the basics found at home, including a tablet, a cream, syrup and a sticking plaster, the everyday medicine a household keeps without thinking about it.

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medicine
/ˈmɛdəsən/
Something you drink or swallow when you are ill, to make you better.
Example: Take this medicine twice a day after meals.
cream
/krim/
A soft, thick medicine that you rub on your skin to make it better.
Example: Rub some cream on that dry patch of skin.
eye drops
Liquid medicine you put into the two parts of your face that you see with.
Example: The doctor gave me eye drops for my red, itchy eyes.
cough medicine
Sweet, thick liquid you take from a spoon to make a bad throat better.
Example: Mum gave me some cough medicine before bed.
take
/teɪk/
To swallow medicine or use it as instructed.
Example: Take two tablets every morning with water.
tablet
/ˈtæblət/
A small hard round piece of medicine that you swallow.
Example: Take one tablet with water after breakfast.
syrup
/ˈsɜrəp/
A thick sweet liquid medicine, usually for a cough.
Example: The doctor gave her a bottle of syrup for her cough.
chemist
/ˈkɛmɪst/
A shop where you buy medicine.
Example: There is a chemist next to the bus stop.
medicine cabinet
A small cupboard in the bathroom where you keep pills and plasters.
Example: Everything for a cut is in the medicine cabinet upstairs.
sticking plaster
A small strip you put over a cut to keep it clean.
Example: She put a sticking plaster on his finger and he stopped crying.