Pharmacist vs Chemist - What's the difference?
pharmacist | chemist |
(pharmacy) A professional who dispenses prescription drugs in a hospital or retail pharmacy.
(pharmacy, academic) One who studies pharmacy.
A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (chiefly, British, NZ) A pharmacist.
(chiefly, British, NZ) A pharmacy.
(obsolete) An alchemist.
Chemist is a synonym of pharmacist.
As nouns the difference between pharmacist and chemist
is that pharmacist is a professional who dispenses prescription drugs in a hospital or retail pharmacy while chemist is a person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.pharmacist
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(wikipedia pharmacist)Noun
(en noun)chemist
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(wikipedia chemist)Alternative forms
* chimist (obsolete), chymist (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}