PHARMACY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pharmacy mean? 

• PHARMACY (noun)
  The noun PHARMACY has 2 senses:

1. the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines,

2. a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold

  Familiarity information: PHARMACY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHARMACY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines,

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

pharmaceutics; pharmacy

Hypernyms ("pharmacy" is a kind of...):

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Derivation:

pharmaceutic; pharmaceutical (of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists)

pharmacist (a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

apothecary's shop; chemist's; chemist's shop; drugstore; pharmacy

Hypernyms ("pharmacy" is a kind of...):

shop; store (a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services)

Meronyms (parts of "pharmacy"):

pharmacopoeia (a collection or stock of drugs)

Derivation:

pharmaceutic; pharmaceutical (of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists)

 Context examples 

A person trained in pharmacy that prepares and dispenses drugs prescribed by physicians and health practitioners.

(Pharmacist, NCI Thesaurus)

A traditional unit of volume used in pharmacies for small quantities of liquids.

(Minim, NCI Thesaurus)

Errors can happen in the hospital, at the doctor's office, at the pharmacy, or at home.

(Medication Errors, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

This agent is reacted in the nuclear pharmacy with Indium-111 radioisotope to form the active radioimmune conjugate, which is injected for radioimaging of tumors expressing TAG-72.

(Chelate-Monoclonal Antibody B72.3, NCI Thesaurus)

A person who initiates and maintains a contact or connection pertaining to pharmacy.

(Pharmaceutical Liaison, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called board certified oncology pharmacy specialist and oncology pharmacy specialist.

(BCOP, NCI Dictionary)

Also called BCOP and board certified oncology pharmacy specialist.

(Oncology pharmacy specialist, NCI Dictionary)

Also called BCOP and oncology pharmacy specialist.

(Board certified oncology pharmacy specialist, NCI Dictionary)

A unit of volume used in pharmacy and equal to 0.05 milliliter (20 drops/ml).

(Metric Drop, NCI Thesaurus)

For you, drug safety means buying online from only legitimate pharmacies and taking your medicines correctly.

(Drug Safety, NIH)