PHARMACIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pharmacist mean? 

• PHARMACIST (noun)
  The noun PHARMACIST has 1 sense:

1. a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs

  Familiarity information: PHARMACIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHARMACIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

apothecary; chemist; druggist; pharmacist; pill pusher; pill roller

Hypernyms ("pharmacist" is a kind of...):

caregiver; health care provider; health professional; PCP; primary care provider (a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pharmacist"):

pharmaceutical chemist; pharmacologist (someone trained in the science of drugs (their composition and uses and effects))

Derivation:

pharmaceutic (of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists)

pharmacy (the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines,)

 Context examples 

If you don't know the answers to these questions, ask your doctor or pharmacist.

(Medication Errors, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Ask your health care provider or pharmacist if you have questions.

(Drug Reactions, NIH)

Talk to your doctor, pharmacist, or other health care provider before giving two medicines at the same time.

(Medicines and Children, Food and Drug Administration)

A vial that is used by the pharmacist to dispense the prescribed medication.

(Dispensing Vial, NCI Thesaurus)

A licensed pharmacist with special training in how to design, give, monitor, and change chemotherapy for cancer patients.

(BCOP, NCI Dictionary)

A bottle that is used by the pharmacist to dispense the prescribed medication.

(Dispensing Bottle, NCI Thesaurus)

A cooperative group funded primarily by the NCI, one of the largest clinical cancer research organizations in the US, incorporating universities, medical centers, Community Clinical Oncology Programs, and Cooperative Group Outreach Programs with almost 6000 physicians, nurses, pharmacists, statisticians, and clinical research associates from the US, Canada, and South Africa.

(Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, NCI Thesaurus)

The German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices Commission E. A committee made up of scientists, toxicologists, doctors, and pharmacists formed by the German government in 1978 to find out if herbs sold in Germany are safe and effective.

(German Commission E, NCI Dictionary)