PHARMACY
\fˈɑːməsi], \fˈɑːməsi], \f_ˈɑː_m_ə_s_i]\
Definitions of PHARMACY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist.
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A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an apothecary's shop.
By Oddity Software
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The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist.
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A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an apothecary's shop.
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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The art which teaches the knowledge, choice, preservation, preparation, and combination of medicines. It was formerly divided into Galenical and Chymical. The former, called after Galen, embraced the operations undertaken on medicines without chymistry: - the latter, Chymical Pharmacy or Pharmaceutic Chymistry, Pharmacochymia, comprised the preparation of medicines, founded on the chymical action of their principles.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The science of preparing and dispensing medicines.
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An apothecarys shop.
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The term "pharmacy" is also used in a restricted sense to indicate that branch of pharmaceutical education, which treats of galenical preparations. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Greek] Art or practice of preparing, preserving, and compounding substances, for the purposes of medicine; the application of the laws of chemistry to the preparation of drugs;—the compounding of medicines or drugs according to a medical prescription; the trade or business of an apothecary.
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