pharmaceutical
[fahr-muh-soo-ti-kuh l]
- pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
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- a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
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Sometimes phar·ma·ceu·tic.
Origin of pharmaceutical
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Contemporary Examples
The 289-page satire follows Morris Feldstein, a pharmaceutical salesman who gets seduced by a lonely receptionist.
Whitaker shows how some pharmaceutical companies have cooked the books to make the drugs seem more effective than they are.
PG has been used in more than 4,000 food, beverage, pharmaceutical and cosmetic products for more than 50 years.
The patients and their estates agree not to bring legal action against caregivers, pharmaceutical companies, and insurers.
Is it art, could it harm her, and does it successfully target—as she intends—the pharmaceutical industry?
Historical Examples
Pharmaceutical, Non-officinal, and other Preparations of Arsenic.
Poisons: Their Effects and DetectionAlexander Wynter Blyth
This oil affords a cheap and excellent substitute for olive oil for pharmaceutical and other purposes.
At the Smithsonian … exhibits on pharmaceutical dosage forms.
Pulvis, L. Powders are divided by pharmaceutical writers into two classes—simple and compound.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume IIArnold Cooley
A receipt for this article, upon the authority of Battley, has been going the round of the pharmaceutical works for many years.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume IIArnold Cooley
pharmaceutical
less commonly pharmaceutic
- of or relating to drugs or pharmacy
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Word Origin
C17: from Late Latin pharmaceuticus, from Greek pharmakeus purveyor of drugs; see pharmacy
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Word Origin and History for pharmaceutical
adj.
1640s (pharmaceutic in the same sense is from 1540s), from Late Latin pharmaceuticus "of drugs," from Greek pharmakeutikos, from pharmakeus "preparer of drugs, poisoner" (see pharmacy). Related: Pharmaceuticals; pharmaceutically.
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pharmaceutical
(fär′mə-sōō′tĭ-kəl)- Of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists.
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- A pharmaceutical product or preparation.
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