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pharmaceutics

pharmaceutics noun: the art and science of dispensing medical drugs.

Noun

pharmaceutics (uncountable)

  1. The art and science of dispensing medical drugs.
  2. (plural, plural-only) medicines, drugs, or other pharmaceutical compounds.
    • ‘One day, I expect pharmaceutics will offer a cure for even the severest mental illnesses.’2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 631

Origin of pharmaceutics

From pharmaceutic + -s; see -ics.

Words formed from pharmaceutics

Questions about pharmaceutics

What does pharmaceutics mean?
Pharmaceutics means the art and science of dispensing medical drugs.
What part of speech is pharmaceutics?
Pharmaceutics is a noun.

Words near pharmaceutics in the dictionary

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

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