A drug in pill, tablet, or capsule form.
A small hard round ball of medication that is taken by swallowing.
A small round ball, sometimes coated with sugar, that contains one or more medicinal substances in solid form. It is taken by mouth.
Small round masses containing active drugs held together by syrup, gum, glycerin, or adhesive vegetable extracts. They are sometimes without coating, being merely rolled in French chalk, but often they are covered with sugar or gelatin. Many people use the term interchangeably with tablets, and ‘the pill’ has come to represent oral contraceptives.
Medicine in the form of a tiny solid mass or pellet to be swallowed or chewed; may be coated.