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Noun: pharmacy  faa(r)-mu-see
  1. A retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold
    "She stopped at the pharmacy to pick up her prescription";
    - drugstore [N. Amer], apothecary's shop [archaic], chemist's [Brit], chemist's shop [Brit], chemist [Brit]
     
  2. The art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines
    "She studied pharmacy to become a compounding pharmacist";
    - pharmaceutics

Derived forms: pharmacies

Type of: medicine, shop, store

Encyclopedia: Pharmacy