pharmacist
Meaning
- A health professional who controls, formulates, preserves, and dispenses medications and provides medical advice and counseling on how medicines should be used in order to achieve maximum benefit, and minimal side effects in order to avoid drug interactions.
- (literary) One who studies pharmacy.
Synonyms
pharmaceutical chemist
dispensing chemist
pill roller
pill pusher
chemist apothecary
Translations
farmacista
Apotheker
pharmacien
farmacéutico
φαρμακοποιός
apotheker
farmacêutico
farmacèutic
صيدليFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfɑɹməsɪst/
Etymology
From pharmacy (“the art of preparing drugs, a drug, especially laxatives”) + -ist.
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