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PHARMACY
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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)
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.
(Pharmacy Bulk Vial, NCI Thesaurus)
