pharmacopoeia
Americannoun
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a book published usually under the jurisdiction of the government and containing a list of drugs, their formulas, methods for making medicinal preparations, requirements and tests for their strength and purity, and other related information.
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a stock of drugs.
noun
Other Word Forms
- pharmacopoeial adjective
- pharmacopoeic adjective
- pharmacopoeist noun
Etymology
Origin of pharmacopoeia
1615–25; < New Latin < Greek pharmakopoiía drug-maker's art, equivalent to phármako ( n ) drug + -poi ( os ) making ( poi ( eîn ) to make + -os adj. suffix) + -ia -ia
Example Sentences
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Fortunately, Borneo’s rich biodiversity offers a vast pharmacopoeia.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 7, 2022
Later, the pharmacopoeia expanded to include large and complex proteins—from insulin to monoclonal antibodies.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019
He published his findings in a pharmacopoeia eventually known as “De Materia Medica,” a standard reference for the next 1,500 years.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2016
In 2003 psychiatrist and environmentalist Eric Chivian of Harvard University described these sea creatures as having “the largest and most clinically important pharmacopoeia of any genus in nature.”
From Scientific American • Jan. 22, 2013
He must manage to sustain his reputation without the aid of the pharmacopoeia, and continue to be imposing without any assistance from the dead languages.
From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Lever, Charles James
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