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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. Pharmacuetically, 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.