PHARMACY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

pharmaceutics; pharmacy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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)

Credits

Context examples:

An automated, on-line medical record containing clinical and demographic information about a patient that is available to providers, ancillary service departments, pharmacies, and others involved in patient treatment or care.

(Electronic medical record, NCI Thesaurus)

A professional, postgraduate degree that requires completion of a program in pharmacy that meets all of the following criteria: completion of the academic requirements to begin practice in the profession; at least 2 years of college work prior to entering the program; eight academic semesters after admission to the School of Pharmacy that involve extensive instruction in professional pharmacy pre-clinical and clinical sciences.

(Doctor of Pharmacy, NCI Thesaurus)

A terminology subset for the NCPDP that contains concepts of various measurements of vital signs, particularly those pertaining to information about a patient that would be shared between clinician and pharmacy in order to determine proper pharmaceutical care.

(NCPDP Measurement Unit Code Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

A container of a sterile preparation whose contents are intended for use in a pharmacy admixture program and are restricted to the preparation of admixtures for infusion or, through a sterile transfer device, for the filling of empty sterile syringes.