a small sweet that you eat by keeping it in your mouth, especially one that tastes of fruit or that contains medicine for a sore throat (= a painful throat because of an infection) 含片;含片状药物 fruit pastilles 果味含片 throat pastilles 喉片
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPastille is used after these nouns:- throat
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from French, from Latin pastillus ‘little loaf, lozenge’, from panis ‘loaf’.