pharmacopoeia

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_ -- Almost the entire list of drugs in the pharmacopoeia has been tested in the treatment of glanders.

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

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  • “A mass of propagating decision trees, fractal compression, lots of synaptic junctions lubricated with friendly endorphins—” Across the room, the bootleg pharmacopoeia is cranking up to manufacture some heavy tranquilizers. —  Asimov's SF, Feb 2002
  • Many of the most valuable drugs in the pharmacopoeia were in standard use before biochemistry—or even chemistry!—was invented. —  Analog January, 1971
  • In Episode 142, Jimmy interviews the very knowledgeable and well-spoken Dr. Jim LaValle, a specialist in nutrition, pharmacopoeia, and natural medicine. —  The Livin La Vida Low-Carb Show
  • The blood of an animal suffering from chronic glanders and farcy is not virulent and is unaltered, but during the attack of acute glanders, while the animal has fever, the blood becomes virulent and remains so for a few days Treatment._--Almost the entire list of drugs in the pharmacopoeia has been tested in the treatment of glanders. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • No pharmacopoeia is more comprehensive than the Chinese. —  An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma
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  1. New Latin, from Greek pharmakopoiiā, preparation of drugs, from pharmakopoios, preparing drugs : pharmako-, pharmaco- + poiein, to make; see kwei-2 in Indo-European roots.
 

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