Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists.
- n. A pharmaceutical product or preparation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as pharmaceutic
Wiktionary
- adj. medicine of, or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists.
- n. medicine A pharmaceutical or pharmacological preparation or product; a drug.
WordNet 3.0
- n. drug or medicine that is prepared or dispensed in pharmacies and used in medical treatment
- adj. of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists
- adj. of or relating to drugs used in medical treatment
Etymologies
- From pharmaceutic + -al, from Latin pharmaceuticus ("of drugs"), from Greek φαρμακευτικός (pharmakeutikós, "drug maker"). (Wiktionary)
- From Late Latin pharmaceuticus, from Greek pharmakeutikos, from pharmakeutēs, preparer of drugs, variant of pharmakeus, from pharmakon, drug. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“As a general rule, once a pharmaceutical is approved for use in any European or North American country, it is made available in Mexico.”
“Why, I believe he's what we call a pharmaceutical entrepreneur," Jackie said, raising one eyebrow.”
“Does Masten honestly believe that without the FDA we would be twenty years or so further on in pharmaceutical development?”
Explaining Pharmaceutical Regulation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“While the 1986 Vaccine Injury Act bars state tort lawsuits alleging defective design, two other kinds of lawsuits go forward all the time in pharmaceutical industry product liability cases.”
“Moreover, according to recently released 2008 personal finance disclosures, Kyl invests heavily in pharmaceutical companies.”
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“Does the military have heavy investments in pharmaceutical companies and this is how they generate financial support for themselves?”
“A healthy trend on this year's list: More than 40 members make substantial money in pharmaceutical and health-related businesses, about three-quarters more than last year.”
“Employer-provided clinics for routine healthcare, major tort law reform to end punitive lawsuit awards, ending practices wherein pharmaceutical reps give spiffs or gifts to doctors who prescribe their brands, ending referral fees doctors pay to each other, etc. Raymond Jenkins”
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“If a new pharmaceutical is approved out of a specific trial, a bidding process would occur to select a manufacturer for the new product.”
“Shares in Chinese pharmaceutical firm Shenzhen Hepalink closed up 18% after their debut on the country's emerging markets board, leaving its founders in the ranks of the country's richest people.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pharmaceutical’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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Words sung by: Belle and Sebastian
beguiling, herbaceous, peninsula, suffragette, damascan, hastening, berserk, overtime, leccy, bestow, swathe, arab strap and 193 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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Nick Yeow’s Words
Recently learned words that I like.
pharmaceutical, bowdlerise, connoisseur, cognoscenti, ostracise, aforementioned, antepenultimate, concatenate, extraterrestrial, psychiatrist, firmament, gastronomical and 100 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Words I assumed I had not been misspe...
Catching a misspelling is both pleasurable (hooray learning!) and painful (every sentence you now realize you've ever marred with the offending word flashes to mind in one terrible instant).
...separate, exercise, a lot, all right, cemetery, consensus, supersede, playwright, noticeable, perseverance, medieval, gauge and 88 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pharmaceutical.
sionnach You're gonna have to do better than that Pro. Who wants to be caught clicking on the link to frumpy? Not without donning their platform soles and Nehru jackets first, anyway.
You might as well signpost it - "this way to nowheresville, losers". Feb 26, 2009
Prolagus Song quotation on frumpy. Feb 26, 2009