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Definition of pharmaceutical:

Of or pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines according to the rules or formulas of pharmacy; as, pharmaceutical preparations.

Synonyms:

Drugs, pharmaceutic, medicament.

remedial (part of speech: adjective)
- healing,
- corrective,
- remedial,
- medicated,
- medicinal,
- therapeutic,
- curative,
- germicidal,
- tonic
remedy (part of speech: noun)
- drug,
- aid,
- emetic,
- potion,
- pill,
- ointment,
- correction,
- medicine,
- prescription,
- balm,
- antidote,
- elixir,
- salve,
- dose,
- therapy,
- lotion,
- remedy,
- tonic,
- corrective,
- cure,
- germicide,
- medication

Usage examples:

He had been educated a doctor, but never practised medicine; in carrying on the drug and book business of the village, he cared much more for the literary than the pharmaceutical side of it; he liked to have a circle of cronies about the wood- stove in his store till midnight, and discuss morals and religion with them; and one night, when denying the plenary inspiration of the Scriptures, he went to the wrong jar for an ingredient of the prescription he was making up; the patient died of his mistake.

- "The Quality of Mercy", W. D. Howells.
The country manufactures many articles of world- wide distribution, including chocolate, linens, fine damasks, pottery, chemical and pharmaceutical products, and Amsterdam is a center of diamond- cutting.

- "Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights", Kelly Miller.
A stout, breathless, and yet muscular woman of near sixty, the widow of a chemist and druggist who had made money before limited companies had taken the liberty of being pharmaceutical.

- "The Card, A Story Of Adventure In The Five Towns", Arnold Bennett.