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pharma-

pharma- prefix: pertaining to pharmaceuticals, pharmacology, or the pharmaceutical industry.

Prefix

pharma-

  1. Pertaining to pharmaceuticals, pharmacology, or the pharmaceutical industry.
    • Although I was not surprised by the pervasiveness of pharmaceutical company advertising or the pharma-sponsored components of the health education events I attended over the years, they were impossible to ignore.2018 January 2, Samantha D. Gottlieb, “9. The “Tragically Underused” Vaccine”, in Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine. Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press...

Origin of pharma-

Back-formation from pharmaceutical.

Words formed from pharma-

Questions about pharma-

What does pharma- mean?
Pharma- means pertaining to pharmaceuticals, pharmacology, or the pharmaceutical industry.
What part of speech is pharma-?
Pharma- is a prefix.

Words near pharma- in the dictionary

  1. pharm
  2. Pharm.
  3. Pharm.D.
  4. pharma
  5. Pharma Bro
  6. pharma-
  7. pharmabiotic
  8. pharmabiotics
  9. pharmacal
  10. pharmacare
  11. pharmaceutic

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