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pharmaceutically

pharmaceutically adverb: in pharmaceutical terms or for pharmaceutical purposes.

Adverb

pharmaceutically (not comparable)

  1. In pharmaceutical terms or for pharmaceutical purposes.
    • Of recent years Japan wax is an important article of commerce, and it was while examining a lot of several carloads some time ago that the though occurred to me why cannot it be used pharmaceutically?1899 June, Robert C. Purcell, “Japan Wax as a Substitute of Beeswax in Ointments and Cerates”, in Merck Report, volume 8, page 257
    • Pharmaceutically tested in recent times, mandrake show aphrodisiac properties.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 144

Origin of pharmaceutically

From pharmaceutic + -ally.

Words formed from pharmaceutically

Questions about pharmaceutically

What does pharmaceutically mean?
Pharmaceutically means in pharmaceutical terms or for pharmaceutical purposes.
What part of speech is pharmaceutically?
Pharmaceutically is an adverb.

Words near pharmaceutically in the dictionary

  1. pharmaceutical sciences
  2. pharmaceuticalisation
  3. pharmaceuticalization
  4. pharmaceuticalize
  5. pharmaceuticalized
  6. pharmaceutically
  7. pharmaceuticals
  8. pharmaceutics
  9. pharmaceutist
  10. pharmaceutists
  11. pharmacian

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