PHARMACY


Meaning of PHARMACY in English

/fahr"meuh see/ , n. , pl. pharmacies .

1. Also called pharmaceutics . the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines.

2. a drugstore.

[ 1645-55; earlier pharmacia pharmakeía druggist's work. See PHARMACO-, -Y 3 ]

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