pharmacist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A health professional who controls, formulates, preserves, and dispenses medications and provides medical advice and counseling on how medicines should be used in order to achieve maximum benefit, and minimal side effects in order to avoid drug interactions.
One who studies pharmacy.

fär'məsĭst /ˈfɑɹməsɪst/ en-us-pharmacist-noun.ogg

pharmacist pharmacists

From pharmacy (“the art of preparing drugs, a drug, especially laxatives”) + -ist.

druggist chemist pharmacian apothecary pharmacopolist quack snake oil salesman pharmacopole gallipot

pharmacy

ethnopharmacist nonpharmacist polypharmacist radiopharmacist street pharmacist

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