PHARMACEUTICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pharmaceutics mean? 

• PHARMACEUTICS (noun)
  The noun PHARMACEUTICS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PHARMACEUTICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHARMACEUTICS (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 ("pharmaceutics" 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)

 Context examples 

Compounding drug dosage forms for human consumption under a contract by other sources than the facilities that use the pharmaceutics.

(Outsourcing Human Drug Compounding, NCI Thesaurus)

Light mineral oil has uses in biotechnology, pharmaceutics, cosmetics, and industry.

(Light Mineral Oil, NCI Thesaurus)