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.

Industry: Health care

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Health care; Pharmacy

A continually revised list of medications that are readily available for use within an institution or from a third-party payer (e.g., insurance company and government) that reflects the current ...

Alcoholism

Health care; Pharmacy

A chronic, progressive, and potentially fatal biogenic and psychosocial disease characterised by tolerance and physical dependence and manifested by a total loss of control, as well as diverse ...

Discriminant analysis

Health care; Pharmacy

A regression technique for predicting a nominal outcome that has more than two values; a method used to classify subjects or objects into groups; also called discriminant function analysis.

Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)

Health care; Pharmacy

A polypeptide hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that promotes ovarian follicle development and stimulates estradiol and progesterone.

A situation in which the effects of two processes are not separated. The distortion of the apparent effect of an exposure on risk brought about by the association of other factors that can influence ...