APOTHECARY
\ɐpˈɒθɪkəɹi], \ɐpˈɒθɪkəɹi], \ɐ_p_ˈɒ_θ_ɪ_k_ə_ɹ_i]\
Definitions of APOTHECARY
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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In every country except Great Britain, it means one who sells drugs, makes up prescriptions. In addition to these offices, which, indeed, they rarely exercise, except in the case of their own patients, the Apothecaries in England form a privileged class of practitioners- a kind of subphysician. See Surgeon-apothecary.
By Robley Dunglison
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A druggist or pharmacist. In England, some apothecaries are also authorized physicians.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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One who prepares and sells drugs as medicines. In Great Britain the term is applied to a "general practitioner" who is not a legally qualified practitioner. [Old Fr., Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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beta Lactams
- Cyclic amides formed aminocarboxy acids by the elimination water. They isomeric with lactims, which are enol forms of lactams. (From Dorland, 27th ed)