| pharmacuetical | Of or pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines according to the rules or formulas of pharmacy; as, pharmaceutical preparations. Pharmacue"tically, Pharmaceutical chemistry, that department of chemistry which ascertains or regulates the composition of medicinal substances. Origin: L. Pharmaceuticus, Gr, fr., cf. F. Pharmaceutique. See Pharmacy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| pharmacuetics | The science of preparing medicines. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pharmacy | 1. 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. 2. A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an apothecary's shop. Origin: OE. Fermacie, OF. Farmacie, pharmacie, F. Pharmacie, Gr, fr. To administer or use medicines, fr. Medicine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pharmacy administration | The business and managerial aspects of pharmacy in its broadest sense. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pharmacy and therapeutics committee | An advisory group composed primarily of staff physicians and the pharmacist which serves as the communication link between the medical staff and the pharmacy department. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pharmacy service, hospital | Hospital department responsible for the receiving, storing, and distribution of pharmaceutical supplies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pharmalogical studies | <pharmacology> Studies to assess the potential harmful or other effects of drugs (16 Dec 1997) |
| pharming | <technique> A genetic-engineering technique by which the embryos of livestock are injected with human genetic material encoded to produce chemicals normally generated only by the human body, so that blood, proteins, and organs from the fully grown animals can be used in medicines and cross-species organ transplants. Synonym: transgenics. (14 Nov 1997) |
| pharology | <study> The art or science which treats of lighthouses and signal lights. Origin: Gr. A lighthouse. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pharyng- | See: pharyngo-. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pharyngeal | <anatomy> Of or pertaining to the pharynx; in the region of the pharynx. See: Pharynx. <anatomy> A pharyngeal bone or cartilage; especially, one of the lower pharyngeals, which belong to the rudimentary fifth branchial arch in many fishes, or one of the upper pharyngeals, or pharyngobranchials, which are the dorsal elements in the complete branchial arches. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pharyngeal arches | Typically, 6 arch's in vertebrates; in the lower vertebrates, they bear gills; in the higher vertebrates, they appear transiently and give rise to specialised structures in the head and neck. Synonym: pharyngeal arches, visceral arches. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pharyngeal branch of descending palatine artery | <anatomy, artery> May arise as a separate branch or as a continuation of lesser palatine artery. Synonym: ramus pharyngeus arteriae palatini descendens. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pharyngeal branch of glossopharyngeal nerve | <anatomy, nerve> Conveys general sensory fibres to the mucosa of the oropharynx via the pharyngeal plexus. Synonym: rami pharyngei nervi glossopharyngei. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pharyngeal branch of inferior thyroid artery | <anatomy, artery> Distributed to laryngopharynx. Synonym: rami pharyngeales arteriae thyroideae inferioris. (05 Mar 2000) |