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pharmaceutics

pharmaceutics

8.2
The study of making and preparing medicines for people to use
  • noun
  • /ˌfɑːrməˈsjuːtɪks/
  • Specialized
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  • "The drug can bypass the stomach and the intestine and get into the bloodstream to target therapeutic sites," said Nicholas Peppas, professor of chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, and pharmaceutics at The University of Texas.

Examples

  • Advancements in pharmaceutics have led to safer and more efficient delivery systems for medications.

  • In pharmaceutics, the hard part is to get the formula for the drug, not producing the drug.

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  • Pharmaceutics focuses on the formulation and dispensing of pharmaceutics to ensure their effectiveness.

  • Students in the field of pharmaceutics learn how to prepare various types of drugs for patient use.

Synonyms

pharmacy
vspharmaceutics
  • Specialized
60 3.4

Study and work that involve preparing and giving medicines to people

is the scientific branch focused on formulation and study rather than practical work

Surface Forms

pharmaceutics singular
pharmaceutics plural

Morphology

pharmaceutics = pharmaceutic (semi-transparent) = pharmaceut + ics

Formed by the combining form 'pharmaceut-' plus the productive field-of-study suffix '-ics'; the relation is clear if learners know 'pharmacy'/'pharmaceutical', but the combining form is less familiar.

Etymology

Pharmaceutics comes from the Greek root pharmakon, which means 'drug' or 'medicine'. Think of the common words pharmacy and pharmacist; pharmaceutics is the science of preparing and giving out those medicines, so the origin explains the modern meaning.