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pharmacy |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pharmacy \Phar"ma*cy\, n. [OE. fermacie OF farmacie pharmacie F. pharmacie Gr ?, fr ? to administer or use medicines, fr ? medicine.] 1. 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. 2. A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an apothecary's shop. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pharmacy n 1: the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines, [syn: {pharmaceutics}] 2: a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold [syn: {drugstore}, {apothecary's shop}, {chemist's}, {chemist's shop}, {dispensary}]
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