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medicine chest

British  

noun

  1. a small chest or cupboard for storing medicines, bandages, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"The No. 1 rule at the Poison Center is that if it's available, people will take it, and a lot of people have Tylenol in their medicine chest."

From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2026

Unable to straighten up for a minute or two, she took small steps toward the medicine chest in her parents’ Florida home in search of an over-the-counter painkiller.

From Washington Post • May 15, 2017

Or, like Propecia and Viagra — age-fighting interventions that men use and rarely take much criticism for — are they simply elements in a modern medicine chest, there for the picking?

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2016

Ross says Sheen didn't reveal his HIV status until after she found his medication in a medicine chest.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2015

Half an hour after, Jo went to ‘Mother’s closet’ for something, and there found little Beth sitting on the medicine chest, looking very grave, with red eyes and a camphor bottle in her hand.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

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