Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A book containing an official list of medicinal drugs together with articles on their preparation and use.
  • noun A collection or stock of drugs.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A collection of drugs.
  • noun A book of formulæ or directions for the preparation, etc., of medicines, generally published by authority.
  • noun A chemical laboratory.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A book or treatise describing the drugs, preparations, etc., used in medicine; especially, one that is issued by official authority and considered as an authoritative standard.
  • noun obsolete A chemical laboratory.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An official book describing medicines or other pharmacological substances, especially their use, preparation, and regulation.
  • noun A collection of drugs.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation
  • noun a collection or stock of drugs

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin, from Greek pharmakopoiiā, preparation of drugs, from pharmakopoios, preparing drugs : pharmako-, pharmaco- + poiein, to make; see kwei- in Indo-European roots.]

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From French pharmacopée and post-classical Latin pharmacopoeia, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek φαρμακοποιία (pharmakopoiia, "preparation of drugs").

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Examples

  • He supported the Cuban idea of establishing regional Latin American pharmacopoeia so as to give the best sources of medicinal plants.

    Chapter 10 1991

  • And I learnt that the only emetic known to the Albanian pharmacopoeia is human excrement and water – given in all cases of supposed poisoning; and that the remedy for dipsomania is the same, mixed with rakia.

    High Albania Mary Edith 1909

  • By the time they get their long white coats and stethoscopes they will have sampled just about every item in the Physician's Desk Reference pharmacopoeia—and then some.

    Quitting Smack Con Chapman 2011

  • Presumably both have magnets which would be affected while Justine's trippy, electric hand-trails are perhaps more evidence of Von Trier's recent episode in pharmacopoeia, perhaps while watching the wood-spirits in Avatar?

    Michael Vazquez: 2011's Doomsday Cinema, Part I: Melancholia @ 49th NYFF plus Gainsbourg on Von Trier & Lars' NYFF 47 Press Conference (VIDEO) Michael Vazquez 2012

  • Genentech imagined leveraging this technology of genes to develop a pharmacopoeia of novel drugs.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • With vincristine added to the pharmacopoeia, leukemia researchers found themselves facing the paradox of excess: how might one take four independently active drugs—methotrexate, prednisone, 6-MP, and vincristine—and stitch them together into an effective regimen?

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • And cannabis was in the American pharmacopoeia until 1941 IIRC.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • Recently, African knowledge and indigenous pharmacopoeia have begun to catch the attention of corporations and product developers.

    Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

  • Genentech imagined leveraging this technology of genes to develop a pharmacopoeia of novel drugs.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • With vincristine added to the pharmacopoeia, leukemia researchers found themselves facing the paradox of excess: how might one take four independently active drugs—methotrexate, prednisone, 6-MP, and vincristine—and stitch them together into an effective regimen?

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

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