Look up: apothecary

1. Apothecary
   A·poth'e·ca·ry noun ; plural Apothecaries . [ Middle English apotecarie , from Late Latin apothecarius , from Latin apotheca storehouse, Greek apo , from ... to put away; ... from + ... to put: confer Fr...
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2. apothecary
   One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes. ... In England an apothecary is one of a privileged class of practitioners a kind of sub-physician. The surgeon apothecary is the ordinary family medical attendant. One who sells drugs and makes up prescriptions is now commonly ca...
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3. apothecary
   (ә-poth´ә-kar″e) pharmacist.
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4. Apothecary
   • (n.) One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.
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5. apothecary
   (from the article `pharmacology`) ...treatise, a listing of herbal plants used in classical medicine, was made in the 1st century by the Greek physician Dioscorides. The medical ... In London the Society of Apothecaries (pharmacists) was founded in 1617. This marked the emergence of pharmacy as a distinct and separate entity. The ... ...
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6. apothecary
   apothecary 1. A pharmacy, drugstore, or a place where medical prescriptions can be filled and stored. 2. From Latin apotheca 'storehouse'; which came from Greek apotheke 'storehouse'. Literally, 'a place where things are put away', from apo- 'away' + tithenai 'to put'.
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7. Apothecary
   In a general sense, an apothecary was one who kept a shop or laboratory for preparing, compounding, and vending medicines, and for the making up of medical prescriptions. In England the term was long applied to a regularly licensed class of medical practitioners, being such persons as were members o...
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8. apothecary
   Type: Term Pronunciation: ă-poth′ĕ-kār-ē Definitions: 1. Obsolescent term for pharmacist or druggist.
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9. apothecary
   one who prepares drugs and medicines, sometimes made house calls, and gave advice concerning medical conditions; lowest order of medical man.
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10. Apothecary
    An Apothecary dispensed medicines derived from herbs, plants and roots. The apothecary was a less expensive alternative to a physician in Tudor times and was often the only source of medical care for the poor; he was usually a priest or friar.
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