Definition of pharmacy Pharmacy

/fɑˈɹmʌsi/ - [farmusee] - phar•ma•cy

We found 10 definitions of pharmacy from 6 different sources.

What does pharmacy mean?

Noun Plural: pharmacies
pharmacy - the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines,
		pharmaceutics
		medical specialty, medicine the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard"
pharmacy - a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold
		drugstore, apothecary's shop, chemist's, chemist's shop
		shop, store a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod"

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pharmacy (Noun)
A place where prescription drugs are dispensed, a dispensary.
pharmacy (Noun)
The science of medicinal substances comprising pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, phytochemistry and forensics.
pharmacy (Noun)
The occupation of a pharmacist.

pharmacy (n.)
The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist.
pharmacy (n.)
A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an apothecary's shop.

pharmacy
fär′ma-si, n. a department of the medical art which consists in the collecting, preparing, preserving, and dispensing of medicines: the art of preparing and mixing medicines: a drug-store.—ns. Phar′macist, a druggist, one skilled in pharmacy; Pharmacognos′tics, the sum of knowledge about drugs; Pharmacog′raphy, a description of drugs; Pharmacol′ogist, one skilled in pharmacology; Pharmacol′ogy, pharmacy; Phar′macon, a drug; Pharmacop′olist, a dealer in drugs. [Fr. pharmacie—L.,—Gr. pharmakon, a drug.]

A pharmacy is a shop where therapeutic drugs are sold. Sometimes a pharmacy is also called a "drug store". The people working in a pharmacy are called pharmacists or chemists (British English). These people can recognise simple diseases and give drugs for some of them.

Certain drugs are special, because they can be addictive, or they change the way other drugs act, or they need to be taken in a special way. These drugs cannot simply be bought at a pharmacy, a prescription is necessary to get them. Medical doctors give out prescriptions, which can then be used to get the drug.

Many pharmacies do not sell drugs only. They also sell beauty products, hygiene-related products, like tampons for women and contraceptives.