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Medication vs Pharmacy - What's the difference?

medication | pharmacy |

As nouns the difference between medication and pharmacy

is that medication is medication while pharmacy is a place where prescription drugs are dispensed, a dispensary.

medication

English

Noun

(wikipedia medication) (medications)
  • A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient
  • The administration of medicine

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    * medic * medicine * medicament * medicate * medicinal * premedication

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    pharmacy

    English

    Noun

    (pharmacies)
  • A place where prescription drugs are dispensed, a dispensary.
  • The science of medicinal substances comprising pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, phytochemistry and forensics.
  • The occupation of a pharmacist.

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