GC: n
S: NCBI – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1847547/ (last access: 1 February 2025); LJMUISC – https://www.ljmuisc.com/blog/what-is-pharmacy (last access: 1 February 2025)
N: 1. late 14c., “a medicine,” from Old French farmacie “a purgative” (13c.), from Medieval Latin pharmacia, from Greek pharmakeia “use of drugs, medicines, potions, or spells; poisoning, witchcraft; remedy, cure,” from pharmakeus (fem. pharmakis) “preparer of drugs, poisoner, sorcorer” from pharmakon “drug, poison, philter, charm, spell, enchantment.” Meaning “use or administration of drugs” is attested from c.1400; that of “place where drugs are prepared and dispensed” is first recorded 1833. The ph- was restored 16c. in French, 17c. in English (see ph).
2. pharmacy (plural: pharmacies).
- [count] a: a store or part of a store in which drugs and medicines are prepared and sold.
b: a place in a hospital where drugs and medicines are prepared and given out: dispensary. - [noncount]: the practice and profession of preparing drugs and medicines.
3. pharmacy, the science and art concerned with the preparation and standardization of drugs. Its scope includes the cultivation of plants that are used as drugs, the synthesis of chemical compounds of medicinal value, and the analysis of medicinal agents.
Pharmacists are responsible for the preparation of the dosage forms of drugs, such as tablets, capsules, and sterile solutions for injection. They compound physicians’, dentists’, and veterinarians’ prescriptions for drugs.
The science that embraces knowledge of drugs with special reference to the mechanism of their action in the treatment of disease is pharmacology.
4. – Commercial Establishments; Health Institutions, Pharmacology: drugstore, drug store.
– Pharmacology: pharmacy (correct, officially approved), pharm (correct, officially approved).
- A place where genetically modified plants or animals are grown or reared in order to produce pharmaceutical products.
- pharm: formed from “pharmaceutical” and “farm”.
- pharmacy; pharm: term and abbreviation officially approved by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces.
S: 1. Etymonline – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=pharmacy&searchmode=none (last access: 1 September 2014). 2. BritDict – https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/pharmacy (last access: 1 February 2025). 3. EncBrit – https://www.britannica.com/science/pharmacy (last access: 1 February 2025). 4. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=drugstore&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs, https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=pharmacy&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 1 February 2025).
SYN: pharmaceutics (depending on context)
S: GDT – https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/8385537/pharmacie (last access: 1 February 2025).
CR: first-aid kit, medicine cabinet, pharmacology, pharmacy.