pharmacist
Meanings
Plural: pharmacists
Noun
- a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs
- A health professional who controls, formulates, preserves, and dispenses medications and provides medical advice and counseling on how medicines should be used in order to achieve maximum benefit, and minimal side effects in order to avoid drug interactions.
- One who studies pharmacy.
Origin / Etymology
From pharmacy (“the art of preparing drugs, a drug, especially laxatives”) + -ist.
Synonyms
apothecary, chemist, druggist, gallipot, pharmacian, pharmacopole, pharmacopolist, pill pusher, pill roller, quack, snake oil salesman
Scrabble Score: 19
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