Pharmacy
noun
A place where medicines are prepared and sold.
I need to pick up my prescription from the pharmacy.
Often appears as...
- local pharmacy
- pharmacy counter
noun
The science or practice of preparing and dispensing medicinal drugs.
He is studying pharmacy at university.
Often appears as...
- study pharmacy
- school of pharmacy
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A place where medicines are prepared and sold.
I need to pick up my prescription from the pharmacy.
Often appears as...
- local pharmacy
- pharmacy counter
noun
The science or practice of preparing and dispensing medicinal drugs.
He is studying pharmacy at university.
Often appears as...
- study pharmacy
- school of pharmacy
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Usage Context
Pharmacy refers to a physical shop in everyday language, often on street corners.
Let's go to the pharmacy to buy some cough syrup.
Pro Tip 2/3Prescription Focus
Pharmacies are associated with filling prescriptions from doctors, not just over-the-counter sales.
The doctor sent my prescription directly to the pharmacy.
Pro Tip 3/3Healthcare Role
Pharmacies play a key role in healthcare and can offer advice on minor ailments.
The pharmacy provided useful advice for treating my cold.
Pro Tip 1/3Usage Context
Pharmacy refers to a physical shop in everyday language, often on street corners.
Let's go to the pharmacy to buy some cough syrup.
Pro Tip 2/3Prescription Focus
Pharmacies are associated with filling prescriptions from doctors, not just over-the-counter sales.
The doctor sent my prescription directly to the pharmacy.
Pro Tip 3/3Healthcare Role
Pharmacies play a key role in healthcare and can offer advice on minor ailments.
The pharmacy provided useful advice for treating my cold.
Pro Tip 1/3Usage Context
Pharmacy refers to a physical shop in everyday language, often on street corners.
Let's go to the pharmacy to buy some cough syrup.
Pro Tip 2/3Prescription Focus
Pharmacies are associated with filling prescriptions from doctors, not just over-the-counter sales.
The doctor sent my prescription directly to the pharmacy.
Pro Tip 3/3Healthcare Role
Pharmacies play a key role in healthcare and can offer advice on minor ailments.
The pharmacy provided useful advice for treating my cold.
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or the democratic mandate, that then informs our development of the counter-coronavirus strategy and helping the world with such tools. And so this is the first part, it's called listening at scale for rough consensus. The second part I already covered is the distribute ledger, where everybody can go to a nearby pharmacy,
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Rodney Brooks: Why we...
These are in hundreds of hospitals across the U.S. And they take the dirty sheets down to the laundry. They take the dirty dishes back to the kitchen. They bring the medicines up from the pharmacy. And it frees up the nurses and the nurse's aides from doing that mundane work of just mechanically pushing stuff around
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and found that her husband had killed himself and their two kids. She now runs a free pharmacy, she volunteers in the community, she helps women cope with violence, she teaches. She told me, "I grew from this experience because I was angry. I was going to fight back against what he tried to do to me
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Romina Libster: The...
We knew absolutely nothing. Everything was a mess. People wore masks on the street, ran into pharmacies to buy alcohol gel. People would line up in pharmacies to get a vaccine, without even knowing if it was the right vaccine that would protect them against this new virus.
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Your calls are being...
an easily available a cell phone I have one here you can get these at drug stores and pharmacies modify this and you can intercept text messages voice calls and and other signals we've entered a new era of surveillance where surveillance capabilities are no longer
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Why People and AI Make...
more amplified? Let me give you an example. Humana is a health care company here in the US. It has pharmacy call centers where pharmacists work with patients over the phone. It's a job that requires a fair amount of empathy and humanity.
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Indigenous knowledge...
We understand each other. For us, the nature is our supermarket, where we can collect our food, our water. It's our pharmacy where we can collect our medicinal plants. But it's our school, where we can learn better how to protect it
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if we get a selection we'll find someone who will explain why this is healthy pharmacy owner mr. Yi offers to help Sammis te this one first this is field mouse wine what does this do for us oh
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Early forensics and...
and it was in every home. Anyone could go to the grocery store or the pharmacy and buy it. It was in every kitchen because, believe it or not, it was used to color food. It was in medicines
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How women in Pakistan...
He is a pharmacy doctor, and he sent me to school. Every day, I would go to his clinic when my lessons finished. He's a wonderful man and a well-respected community leader.
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How digital innovation...
or the democratic mandate, that then informs our development of the counter-coronavirus strategy and helping the world with such tools. And so this is the first part, it's called listening at scale for rough consensus. The second part I already covered is the distribute ledger, where everybody can go to a nearby pharmacy,
Video examples
Rodney Brooks: Why we...
These are in hundreds of hospitals across the U.S. And they take the dirty sheets down to the laundry. They take the dirty dishes back to the kitchen. They bring the medicines up from the pharmacy. And it frees up the nurses and the nurse's aides from doing that mundane work of just mechanically pushing stuff around
Video examples
The lies our culture...
and found that her husband had killed himself and their two kids. She now runs a free pharmacy, she volunteers in the community, she helps women cope with violence, she teaches. She told me, "I grew from this experience because I was angry. I was going to fight back against what he tried to do to me
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Romina Libster: The...
We knew absolutely nothing. Everything was a mess. People wore masks on the street, ran into pharmacies to buy alcohol gel. People would line up in pharmacies to get a vaccine, without even knowing if it was the right vaccine that would protect them against this new virus.
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Your calls are being...
an easily available a cell phone I have one here you can get these at drug stores and pharmacies modify this and you can intercept text messages voice calls and and other signals we've entered a new era of surveillance where surveillance capabilities are no longer
Video examples
Why People and AI Make...
more amplified? Let me give you an example. Humana is a health care company here in the US. It has pharmacy call centers where pharmacists work with patients over the phone. It's a job that requires a fair amount of empathy and humanity.
Video examples
Indigenous knowledge...
We understand each other. For us, the nature is our supermarket, where we can collect our food, our water. It's our pharmacy where we can collect our medicinal plants. But it's our school, where we can learn better how to protect it
Video examples
Three Kinds of Penis...
if we get a selection we'll find someone who will explain why this is healthy pharmacy owner mr. Yi offers to help Sammis te this one first this is field mouse wine what does this do for us oh
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Early forensics and...
and it was in every home. Anyone could go to the grocery store or the pharmacy and buy it. It was in every kitchen because, believe it or not, it was used to color food. It was in medicines
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How women in Pakistan...
He is a pharmacy doctor, and he sent me to school. Every day, I would go to his clinic when my lessons finished. He's a wonderful man and a well-respected community leader.
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Zawe Ashton
English Actress
My dad constantly tells me I should calm down, but I feel so sad when I see places I've known since I was a child closing. I burst out crying when a local pharmacy closed the other day; it's just going to become a shop that nobody has much of a need for. But I am trying to move with the times.
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Virginia Postrel
American Writer
Many different relationships among patients, doctors, and drugs are possible and desirable. As in so many other areas of life, the Internet encourages experimentation. Questionnaire-based pharmacies operate between the traditional prescription and over-the-counter models.
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Emily Weiss
American Businesswoman
The guardians of French pharmacies - the lab-coated salespeople - are busy, serious, and probably know more about your face than you do. Therefore, don't interrupt them, and if they ask you if they can help you, for God's sake, let them. They will not steer you wrong.
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Nadiya Hussain
British Chef
If I break my finger, I go to accident and emergency. If I have a cold, I go to the pharmacy. If I'm broken inside, where do I go? So, to help myself heal, I felt the best way to do this would be to talk, to share and to better understand what it is that I have.
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Roy Cooper
American Politician
A local pharmacy is a great place to get a safe and effective COVID vaccine as well as a flu shot. It's critical that people get these vaccines to protect themselves and slow the spread of the COVID virus as well as the flu.
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Stewart Rahr
American Businessman
Joining forces with Cardinal Health supports Kinray's mission to help retail independent pharmacies serve as an integral provider of care for our evolving health care system.
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Mira Sorvino
American Actress
As the plot of 'Condor' unfolds, you'll understand that nothing is sacred in the pharmacy world or in the behind-the-scenes workings of the CIA and FBI.
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Jennifer Aniston
American Actress
When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed.
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Gia Coppola
American Director
I like the pharmacy makeup. I always get stuck in that aisle... I've always liked looking at it.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
French Statesman
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
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Zawe Ashton
English Actress
My dad constantly tells me I should calm down, but I feel so sad when I see places I've known since I was a child closing. I burst out crying when a local pharmacy closed the other day; it's just going to become a shop that nobody has much of a need for. But I am trying to move with the times.
Quote examples
Virginia Postrel
American Writer
Many different relationships among patients, doctors, and drugs are possible and desirable. As in so many other areas of life, the Internet encourages experimentation. Questionnaire-based pharmacies operate between the traditional prescription and over-the-counter models.
Quote examples
Emily Weiss
American Businesswoman
The guardians of French pharmacies - the lab-coated salespeople - are busy, serious, and probably know more about your face than you do. Therefore, don't interrupt them, and if they ask you if they can help you, for God's sake, let them. They will not steer you wrong.
Quote examples
Nadiya Hussain
British Chef
If I break my finger, I go to accident and emergency. If I have a cold, I go to the pharmacy. If I'm broken inside, where do I go? So, to help myself heal, I felt the best way to do this would be to talk, to share and to better understand what it is that I have.
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Roy Cooper
American Politician
A local pharmacy is a great place to get a safe and effective COVID vaccine as well as a flu shot. It's critical that people get these vaccines to protect themselves and slow the spread of the COVID virus as well as the flu.
Quote examples
Stewart Rahr
American Businessman
Joining forces with Cardinal Health supports Kinray's mission to help retail independent pharmacies serve as an integral provider of care for our evolving health care system.
Quote examples
Mira Sorvino
American Actress
As the plot of 'Condor' unfolds, you'll understand that nothing is sacred in the pharmacy world or in the behind-the-scenes workings of the CIA and FBI.
Quote examples
Jennifer Aniston
American Actress
When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed.
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Gia Coppola
American Director
I like the pharmacy makeup. I always get stuck in that aisle... I've always liked looking at it.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
French Statesman
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
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