Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who practises poly-pharmacy.
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- noun medicine A person who
prescribes multiple drugs for multiple concurrent disorders - noun A
patient who is prescribed such drugs
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Examples
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Of course he was also a polypharmacist, and the complexity, ingenuity, and comprehensiveness of his prescriptions would put to shame even the "accomplished therapeutist" of these modern days.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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