pharmacy

[ fahr-muh-see ]

noun

, plural phar·ma·cies.

1. Also called pharmaceutics. the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines.
2. a drugstore.

pharmacy

/ ˈfɑːməsɪ /

noun

1. Also calledpharmaceutics the practice or art of preparing and dispensing drugs
2. a dispensary

Word History and Origins

Origin of pharmacy¹

1645–55; earlier pharmacia < Medieval Latin < Greek pharmakeía druggist's work. See pharmaco-, -y ³

Word History and Origins

Origin of pharmacy¹

C14: from Medieval Latin pharmacia, from Greek pharmakeia making of drugs, from pharmakon drug

Example Sentences

For example, grocery and pharmacy are grouped together because they tend to be essential trips.

From Search Engine Land

The company also recently launched a virtual pharmacy so patients can receive medication without having to go to a physical location.

From Fortune

It’s much more convenient to drop into a pharmacy than it is to schedule an appointment at a doctor’s office, and in a pandemic situation where large populations need to get vaccinated at the same time, the healthcare system needs all hands on deck.

From Quartz

I taught medical students, medical residents, pharmacy students, pharmacy residents.

From Freakonomics

She and some colleagues recently launched an experiment, in Massachusetts, hoping to increase the number of pills brought back to pharmacies.

From Freakonomics

As a way to be more available to needy souls outside the church, Williams took a clerk job at Walgreens pharmacy.

From The Daily Beast

That means it will need to get pentobarbital from a compounding pharmacy, another source of concern, experts say.

From The Daily Beast

“I am an old lady and the medicine I get from the pharmacy has directions in Ukrainian,” she says.

From The Daily Beast

In 2007, CVS merged with Caremark RX, a huge pharmacy benefits manager (PBM).

From The Daily Beast

The CVS move will undoubtedly create a domino effect among other pharmacy chains.

From The Daily Beast

Health, at any rate, weak; and, by the aid of a little pharmacy—ye Heavens!

From Project Gutenberg

Instead the Luyties Pharmacy Company has discovered a more effective method of putting one over on physicians and druggists.

From Project Gutenberg

(Coxes Hive Syrup), making ten in all—a beautiful example of scientific pharmacy.

From Project Gutenberg

At that time the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, realizing the need of a generic term, adopted epinephrin as such a term.

From Project Gutenberg

Many of the fluid substances employed in pharmacy and chemistry are obtained682 by expression.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• apothecary
• dispensary
• drugstore