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Definitions for: Pharmacy
[n] a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold
[n] the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines,
Webster (1913) Definition: Phar"ma*cy, n. [OE. fermacie, OF. farmacie,
pharmacie, F. pharmacie, Gr. ?, fr. ? to administer or use
medicines, fr. ? medicine.]
1. The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and
of compounding and dispensing medicines according to
prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an
apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist.
2. A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an
apothecary's shop.
Synonyms: apothecary's shop, chemist's, chemist's shop, drugstore, pharmaceutics
See Also: medical specialty, medicine, pharmacopoeia, shop, store
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