pharmaceutically
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6.8
- adverb
- /ˌfɑːrməˈsuːtɪkli/
- Specialized
- Yeah, right, and Doug's muscles aren't pharmaceutically enhanced.
Examples
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Why is it that only the rich should enjoy pharmaceutically-assisted moments of personal introspection?
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I guess you prefer me pharmaceutically castrated, rambling on like a lunatic.
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That was very interesting, pharmaceutically.
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Try to fill it up pharmaceutically, you know, with pills, or the Discovery Channel, or Dino Nuggets.
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She's pharmaceutically challenged.
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This composition comprises ATP or its metabolite and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
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A lot of this information, which may seem like bizarre folk medicine to us, is, in fact, potentially extremely valuable pharmaceutically.
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All told, says James Simpkins of the University of Florida in Gainesville, "Alzheimer's disease is probably more difficult to treat pharmaceutically than any other disease."
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Dr. Baltimore: That being said, you know, as I look forward, what I see us doing is exploiting the information in the genome, developing new drugs, new targets for drugs, and much more exact medicine pharmaceutically.
Synonyms
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3.5
In a way that involves doctors or hospitals
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5.3
In a way that helps heal or treat illness
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7.7
In a way that is about medicines and how they affect the body
Surface Forms
Morphology
pharmaceutically = pharmaceutic (transparent) = pharmaceutic + ally
The adverbial form is transparently derived from the adjective 'pharmaceutic', maintaining the meaning related to pharmaceuticals.
Etymology
The word pharmaceutically comes from the root pharmac- meaning 'drug' or 'medicine', and it is the adverb form of pharmaceutical, the same root you see in pharmacy. So, to do something pharmaceutically is to do it 'in a way that relates to medicines', such as making, testing, or using drugs.