Crossword clues for dispensary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dispensary \Dis*pen"sa*ry\, n.; pl. Dispensaries. [Cf. F. dispensaire.]
A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp., a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price.
A dispensatory.
--Pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"place for weighing out medicines," 1690s, from Medieval Latin dispensarius "one who dispenses," from Latin dispensare (see dispense).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A place or room where something is dispensed. 2 A room specifically designed for the dispensing of drugs; a pharmacy. 3 An institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice. 4 A place where medical cannabis is sold (marijuana or cannabis dispensary)
WordNet
n. clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed
Wikipedia
A dispensary is an office in a school, hospital, industrial plant, or other organization that dispenses medications, medical supplies, and in some cases even medical and dental treatment. In a traditional dispensary set-up, a pharmacist dispenses medication as per prescription or order form. The English term originated from the medieval Latin noun dispensaria and is cognate with the Latin verb dispensare, "to distribute".
The advent of huge industrial plants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as large steel mills, created a demand for in-house first responder services, including firefighting, emergency medical services, and even primary care that were closer to the point of need, under closer company control, and in many cases better capitalized than any services that the surrounding town could provide. In such contexts, company doctors and nurses were regularly on duty or on call.
Electronic dispensaries are designed to ensure efficient and consistent dispensing of excipient and active ingredients in a secure data environment with full audit traceability. A standard dispensary system consists of a range of modules such as manual dispensing, supervisory, bulk dispensing, recipe management and interfacing with external systems. Such a system might dispense much more than just medical related products like alcohol, tobacco or vitamins and minerals.
Usage examples of "dispensary".
TANU Government had done for the people after the Arusha Declaration: abolishing the poll tax, abolishing primary-school fees, building permanent, clean water supplies in the villages, expanding the number of health clinics and dispensaries in the rural areas, increasing primary-school facilities, etc.
From these caverns leapt the motive force of a dispensary in Chemnitz, a glasshouse in Shropshire, a callbox in Billings, Montana.
In the dispensary, Ben Martin was stretched out on a hospital bunk with a traction brace around his neck and a copper-haired medical-surgical patrolwoman fussing over him.
Not very interesting at the moment, I imagine--feeding and potties and babies being sick and trying to remember how to get to the Dispensary or the Path Lab.
Not that it would have made much difference even if he had seen it five minutes in the dispensary steriliser had removed the last of the traces of blood.
He manipulated a dispensary to produce a dangerous overdose of aneurin and inostol.
He manipulated a dispensary to produce a dangerous overdose of aneurin and inostol.
He was blooded, vomited, purged, and blistered, in the usual forms (for the physicians of Hungary are generally as well skilled in the arts of their occupation as any other leeches under the sun), and swallowed a whole dispensary of bolusses, draughts, and apozems, by which means he became fairly delirious in three days, and so untractable, that he could be no longer managed according to rule.
Its armament, at that stage, had been removed, its magazines emptied, all but the essential watertight bulkheads breached or partially cut away, the operating theatre completed, as were the cabins for the medical staff and the dispensary, already fully stocked: the medical store was almost finished, the galley partially so, whereas work had not yet begun on the wards, the recovery room and messes.
Some impression was of course made by the agents of various charities, the guilds and settlements bravely strove at their posts, some of the churches kept their flags flying on the borders of the industrial districts, the Good Samaritans of the Fresh-air Fund were active, the public dispensaries did a thriving business, and the little band of self-sacrificing doctors, most of them women, went their rounds among the poor, the sick, and the friendless.
On the lowermost floor was the cookroom, a small dispensary, and immediate supplies.
Three of the ladies made it through the first ward, with its cases of scrofula, scabies, eczema, defluxions, and stinking pyemia, before deciding that their charitable inclinations could be entirely satisfied by a donation to L'Hôpital, and fleeing back to the dispensary to shed the rough hopsacking gowns with which we had been furnished.
And it must be confessed that the great hospitals, infirmaries, and dispensaries of large cities, where men of wellsifted reputations are in constant attendance, are the true centres of medical education.
Pierre told how he crossed the river Ruvuma by dugout into Cabo Delgado province on what was by now a guerrilla milkrun, so far from Portuguese control was this free zone of villages and dispensaries and schools.
The main danger came from high-level bombing raidsspasmodic, meaningless raids that blasted holes in the wild bush and occasionally filled the dispensaries up with broken bodies and the bomas with gutted bellowing cattle.