vial, phial, pium, opium

U.S. Sets Fight in the Poppies to Stop Taliban
By DEXTER FILKINS
Commanders are planning to cut off the Taliban’s main source of money, Afghanistan’s multimillion-dollar opium crop, by doubling the number of troops in three provinces.

phial

MAINLY UK OLD-FASHIONED Hide phonetics
noun [C] (US USUALLY vial)
a small glass bottle, especially one containing liquid medicine:
a phial of opium鴉片/poison

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

小玻璃瓶;小藥瓶
━━ n. 小型のガラスびん; 薬びん.



The eye doctors have been relying on compounding pharmacies to take a vial of Avastin meant for cancer treatment and divide it, under sterile conditions, into tiny portions for use in the eye. But Genentech said in October that it would no longer sell Avastin to compounding pharmacies.



poppy

1 a: any of a genus (Papaver of the family Papaveraceae, the poppy family) of chiefly annual or perennial herbs with milky juice, showy regular flowers, and capsular fruits including the opium poppy and several forms cultivated as ornamentals b: an extract or decoction of poppy used medicinally2: a strong reddish orange
compound Show phonetics
verb [T]
to mix two things together:
Most tyres are made of rubber compounded with other chemicals and materials.