pharmacist
noun/ˈfɑɹməsɪst/
Etymology From pharmacy (“the art of preparing drugs, a drug, especially laxatives”) + -ist.
1
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.
- He has served as a prescriptionist to the leading pharmacists of the old country, and been employed in many of our American cities.2013, Robin Sterling, People and Things from the Cullman, Alabama Tribune 1877 - 1898, →ISBN:
- By Admir, pharmacist by profession and hobby dronist by passion.2017 February 25, Simon Cocking, “Dronalism and The New Media”, in Irish Tech News:
2
Literary One who studies pharmacy.
- Synonyms
- druggist, chemist, pharmacian, apothecary, pharmacopolist, quack, snake oil salesman, pharmacopole, gallipot
- Derived terms
- ethnopharmacist, nonpharmacist, polypharmacist, radiopharmacist, street pharmacist
- Related terms
- pharmacy