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Pharmacy vs Chemist - What's the difference?

pharmacy | chemist |

Chemist is a synonym of pharmacy.



As nouns the difference between pharmacy and chemist

is that pharmacy is a place where prescription drugs are dispensed, a dispensary while chemist is a person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.

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.
  • See also

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    chemist

    Alternative forms

    * chimist (obsolete), chymist (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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= 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.}}
  • (chiefly, British, NZ) A pharmacist.
  • (chiefly, British, NZ) A pharmacy.
  • (obsolete) An alchemist.
  • Synonyms

    * (pharmacist) apothecary, druggist, pharmacist * (pharmacy) chemist's (British), chemist's shop (British), drugstore (US), pharmacy (especially US)

    Anagrams

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