pharmaceutics
Americannoun
noun
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(functioning as singular) another term for pharmacy
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(functioning as plural) pharmaceutical remedies
Etymology
Origin of pharmaceutics
1535–45; < Late Latin pharmaceuticus < Greek pharmakeutikós, equivalent to pharmakeut ( ḗs ) druggist, originally poisoner (derivative of phármakon; see pharmaco-) + -ikos -ic; see -ics
Vocabulary lists containing pharmaceutics
Example Sentences
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These advances could potentially be used to develop better pharmaceutics and medical treatments.
From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2024
The realization of such a computer holds great potential for diverse industry fields such as logistics, finance, and pharmaceutics.
From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024
“The earlier, the better,” Sam Lai, PhD, a professor of pharmacoengineering and molecular pharmaceutics at the University of North Carolina who also runs a start-up working on inhaled monoclonal antibodies, told me.
From Slate • Sep. 2, 2021
Her mother is an associate professor of pharmaceutics at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston.
From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2018
There is nothing in pharmaceutics that has not a direct origin from vegetable, animal, or mineral life.
From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Litsey, Edwin Carlile
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