Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to pharmacy, or the art of preparing drugs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines according to the rules or formulas of pharmacy.
- adjective that department of chemistry which ascertains or regulates the composition of medicinal substances.
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- adjective
pharmaceutical
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun drug or medicine that is prepared or dispensed in pharmacies and used in medical treatment
- adjective of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists
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Examples
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To be riding across Siberia to make the awarenss of diet supplements and pharmaceutic performance enhancers.
Curlicues: The End of Straight-Ahead Cycling? BikeSnobNYC 2008
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But it is clear to me how evil The CDC and pharmaceutic companies are.
A Short Scary History of Pharma in our lives GreenFertility 2008
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In pharmaceutic dominant research, placebos are deemed unworthy of study.
Alison Rose Levy: Do You Believe in Objective (Ha! Ha! Wink, Wink!) Science? 2008
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I grew up in München where my father has been a professor for pharmaceutic chemistry at the university.
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Some of them had been long known in the pharmacopoeia of the Old World; and others, in the early days of the country, had been adopted by the first settlers from the Indian medicine-men, though with fear and even contrition, because these wild doctors were supposed to draw their pharmaceutic knowledge from no gracious source, the Black Man himself being the principal professor in their medical school.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various
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At the end of six months he had been gradually destroyed by secret poison in his prison in the Tower (to which for an alleged offence he had been committed) by the agency of Dr. Forman, a famous 'pharmaceutic,' under the auspices of the Earl of Rochester.
The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams
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It is the remembrance of sickness and its attendant pharmaceutic devils.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various
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It is necessary that the mortar be closed, and a piece of leather through which the pestle moves, such as is generally used in pulverizing pharmaceutic substances in a laboratory, will answer.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various
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There are nearly 5000 industrial establishments, with 150,000 workmen; the textile, typographic, and pharmaceutic industries are especially well represented.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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It is cheap and excellent for domestic, industrial and pharmaceutic use.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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