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Noun: pharmacy  faa(r)-mu-see
  1. A retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold
    - 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,
    - pharmaceutics

Derived forms: pharmacies

See also: pharmaceutic, pharmacist

Type of: medical specialty, medicine, shop, store

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