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pharmacy

[ fahr-muh-see ]

noun

, plural phar·ma·cies.
  1. Also called pharmaceutics. the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines.
  2. a drugstore.


pharmacy

/ ˈfɑːməsɪ /

noun

  1. Also calledpharmaceutics the practice or art of preparing and dispensing drugs
  2. a dispensary


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pharmacy1

1645–55; earlier pharmacia < Medieval Latin < Greek pharmakeía druggist's work. See pharmaco-, -y 3

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pharmacy1

C14: from Medieval Latin pharmacia, from Greek pharmakeia making of drugs, from pharmakon drug

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Example Sentences

As a way to be more available to needy souls outside the church, Williams took a clerk job at Walgreens pharmacy.

That means it will need to get pentobarbital from a compounding pharmacy, another source of concern, experts say.

“I am an old lady and the medicine I get from the pharmacy has directions in Ukrainian,” she says.

In 2007, CVS merged with Caremark RX, a huge pharmacy benefits manager (PBM).

The CVS move will undoubtedly create a domino effect among other pharmacy chains.

Health, at any rate, weak; and, by the aid of a little pharmacy—ye Heavens!

Instead the Luyties Pharmacy Company has discovered a more effective method of putting one over on physicians and druggists.

(Coxes Hive Syrup), making ten in all—a beautiful example of scientific pharmacy.

At that time the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, realizing the need of a generic term, adopted epinephrin as such a term.

Many of the fluid substances employed in pharmacy and chemistry are obtained682 by expression.

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