2 Jun 2017
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Portuguese (Brazil)
Question about English (US)
What is the difference between painkiller and medicine?
Feel free to just provide example sentences.
Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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English (US)
Spanish (Mexico)
Painkillers are to treat pain. Medicine is a general term to treat any sort of ailment like pain, infection, virus, etc.
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Painkiller is a specific term, so if you have a headache you can say "do you have a painkiller."
If your referring to any type of pill, cream, etc to help treat an infection, virus, or ache then you use medicine.
Here's an example:" I broke out with a rash do you have any medicine to treat this"
If your referring to any type of pill, cream, etc to help treat an infection, virus, or ache then you use medicine.
Here's an example:" I broke out with a rash do you have any medicine to treat this"
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