Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Pharmacy"
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) 1.7 (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}]
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