pharmaceutical
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5.5
- adjective
- /ˌfɑːr.məˈsuː.tɪ.kəl/
- Specialized
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farmacéutico
- Our claim, therefore, is not that the pharmaceutical industry sets out to market bad drugs.
- a pharmaceutical company
- the pharmaceutical industry
- pharmaceutical products
It might be that some people require pharmaceutical interventions.
- It might be that some people require pharmaceutical interventions.
- If you are in the pharmaceutical sphere, you can.
- So Google and YouTube is a pharmaceutical slash tech company.
- But what is your feeling about pharmaceutical treatment in some cases for brain health?
- You know, we're one of only two countries that allow for pharmaceutical ads.
- You're like drug, not to get too sidetracked, but like drug testing, like pharmaceutical drug testing.
- My father's a very quiet man, youngest man to graduate from Fordham Pharmaceutical School.
- This is, of course, the reason that so much tech and pharmaceutical IP is held in Irish corporate structures.
- I'm a reader of the Marshall Angels books on Pharmaceutical industry, so I have certain bias.
- And I go, this is standard business in the pharmaceutical world.
Examples
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I do think there are going to be some really incredible new therapies in the pharmaceutical and gene editing world.
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Her husband was a brilliant researcher for one of France's best pharmaceutical companies.
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But what is your feeling about pharmaceutical treatment in some cases for brain health?
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And pharmaceutical development also stopped and so did research.
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We called this meeting to discuss your pharmaceutical business.
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You know, some end up working for pharmaceutical companies.
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We do marketing and advertising for pharmaceutical companies.
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They're a multinational pharmaceutical corporation.
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Here, medicine is all pharmaceutical compounds created in laboratories, sold by faceless corporations to millions.
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The pharmaceutical industry plays a crucial role in developing new medicines.
Synonyms
Relating to pharmacies and the making of medicines
Compounds
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3.4
A business that finds, makes and sells medicines like pills and vaccines
How Biological
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Surface Forms
Morphology
pharmaceutical = pharmaceutic (transparent) = pharmaceutic + al
The formation from 'pharmaceutic' + -al is regular, but 'pharmaceutic' itself is a less familiar technical base for many learners.
Etymology
Pharmaceutical comes from the Greek word pharmakon, which means 'drug' or 'medicine', and it shares the same root as pharmacy and pharmacist. So pharmaceutical describes things connected with making, selling, or using medicines.