pharmacy
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- noun
- /ˈfɑːrməsi/
- Specialized
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farmacia
- We're going over our pharmacy inventory and there seem to be some discrepancies.
- pharmacies dispense
- hospital pharmacy
- pharmacy staff
And then she decided to go back to school, reinstated her pharmacy degree, her license.
- And then she decided to go back to school, reinstated her pharmacy degree, her license.
- You know, my parents moved from Puerto Rico after they graduated pharmacy school.
- And he's a scientist and a doctor of pharmacy at Saint Luke's Mid American Heart Institute.
- That you could get a scholarship, go to school, get get an engineering degree or towards a lawyer or pharmacy pharmacist.
Examples
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The group was almost evenly divided into thirds regarding why they chose pharmacy as a career.
Academic text (2008) -
The pharmacy sells both over-the-counter and prescription medications.
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Do you have a pharmacy section?
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And this area will be the pharmacy.
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And then, when I was 15, I worked in this pharmacy in a hospital, delivering medicine to all the floors.
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A solution of dexamethasone 24 mg/ml is prepared at a pharmacy and put in a sterile dropper bottle.
Academic text (1999) -
I need to pick up my prescription at the pharmacy on Main Street.
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After visiting the doctor, she went straight to the pharmacy to fill her new medication.
Synonyms
The study of making and preparing medicines for people to use
Surface Forms
Morphology
pharmacy = pharmac + acy
The element 'pharmac' is a combining form (not a standalone English word) and the modern meanings ('science and practice of preparing drugs') are historically derived rather than transparently inferable from English components.
Etymology
Pharmacy comes from the old Greek word pharmakon, meaning 'medicine' or 'drug'. You can see the same root in pharmacist, a person who prepares medicines, so pharmacy today is the science and practice of making and handling medicines.