Pharmacy

Pharmacy

1) The science and practice of the preparation and dispensing of medicinal drugs. 2) A store where medicinal drugs are dispensed and sold.

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Hierarchical regression

Health care; Pharmacy

A logical model-building method in multiple regression in which the investigators group variables according to their function and add them to the regression equation as a group or block.

Indicator drug

Health care; Pharmacy

A drug that, when prescribed, may offer evidence that an adverse effect to a drug may have occurred. Pharmacists can then investigate further to determine whether there really was an adverse effect.

Mainframe computer

Health care; Pharmacy

A large centralised computer that is used via computer terminals or other devices. This term is becoming blurred as smaller computer systems gain greater capabilities.

Median

Health care; Pharmacy

A measure of central tendency. It is the middle observation; ie, the one that divides the distribution of values into halves. It is also equal to the 50th percentile.

Person-years of life lost

Health care; Pharmacy

A measure of total life expectancy lost within a particular population because of premature death.

Pulmonary embolism

Health care; Pharmacy

A disorder of thrombus formation causing obstruction of a pulmonary artery or one of its branches and results in pulmonary infarction.

Hypertensive urgency

Health care; Pharmacy

A clinical situation in which a patient has extremely high blood pressure values, typically greater than 180/120 mm Hg that is not accompanied by acute or progressing target-organ injury. These ...