pharmaceutics
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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 center’s officer for emerging and disruptive technologies, Edward You, noted the investment of Chinese companies in U.S. and European biotechnology and pharmaceutics.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
“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
Paracelsus.—Paracelsus, the great physician of the first half of the sixteenth century, who may well be considered the father of modern pharmaceutics, had no illusions with regard to the exclusive power of drugs over disease.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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