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pharmacy
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN chain ▪ Responding to weekend press comment the company said yesterday that it had received offers for its Superdrug pharmacy chain . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At first he marketed his yogurt through pharmacies. ▪ Patients ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "a medicine," from Old French farmacie "a purgative" (13c.), from Medieval Latin pharmacia , from Greek pharmakeia "use of drugs, medicines, potions, or spells; poisoning, witchcraft; remedy, cure," from pharmakeus (fem. pharmakis ) "preparer ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pharmacy is the science and technique of preparing and dispensing drugs . It is a health profession that links health sciences with chemical sciences and aims to ensure the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs . The scope of pharmacy practice ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines, [syn: pharmaceutics ] a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold [syn: drugstore , apothecary's shop , chemist's , chemist's shop ]
Usage examples of pharmacy.
To this end the psychiatrist prescribed Benzedrine tablets from the Kremlin pharmacy and within two weeks the General Secretary was a pop-eyed wreck.
Yet she visited a pharmacy, bought a home preg nancy test, and sank down in a heap when it showed positive.
The teenage orgies, boys and girls screwing, fighting and beer guzzling with a medicine kit of drugs from the various pharmacies.
Sandwich Shoppe, which served breakfast all day, there was a pharmacy at whose soda fountain the best raspberry lime rickeys in the Commonwealth could be had, as well as a hardware store that offered everything from nails to velveteen.
Progesterone creams are available in over-thecounter form in many pharmacies and natural food stores, mostly as components of cosmetic creams.
As everyone knows, DHEA is now also available over the counter in pharmacies, natural food stores, and by mail order.
Ivy-League education, but I know about pharmacies and how to manage them.
Before the morphia which deadens the pain of neuralgia, or the quinine which arrests the fit of an ague, can find their place in our pharmacies, commerce must have perfected its machinery, and science must have refined its processes, through periods only to be counted by the life of nations.
He was himself going to Ledbury, to consult about pharmacies with the leech, Master Straggles, who was said to be a learned man.
Thus I ever consider that Mary Bolingbroke was a fortunate woman to escape the fate of her father, sooner or later, for we could never persuade her to give up pharmacies, herbments, and such like healings, whenever she knew any one was sick or sorry.
Gillespie, who, like Dr. Cullen, had the advantage of having passed through the gradations of surgery and pharmacy, and by study and practice had attained to such skill, that my father settled on him two hundred pounds a year for five years, and fifty pounds a year during his life, as an honorarium to secure his particular attendance.
Gronke, the pharmacist, has a pharmacy on Neuer Markt that carries everything, corrosive, narcotic, and septic poisons.
Baillie declares to be an enlightened man, and perfectly sincere in his convictions, brought his own medicines from the pharmacy which furnished Hahnemann himself, and employed them for four or five months upon patients in his ward, and with results equally unsatisfactory, as appears from Dr.
Metcalf will tell you how much more sparingly they are given by our practitioners at the present time, than when he first inaugurated the new era of pharmacy among us.
Even the pharmacy is run by a man called Ira who knows everything about everybody and flips pills and salves and prescription printouts with the pizzazz of a cocktail waiter.