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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* The level at which a practitioner is expected to provide care to a patient. * The set of behaviours each patient has a right to expect from a practitioner claiming to provide care in a particular ...

Substance abuse

Health care; Pharmacy

A maladaptive pattern of substance use indicated by repeated adverse consequences related to the repeated use of the substance. Examples include failure to fulfil important obligations at work, ...

Tardive

Health care; Pharmacy

A modifier used to describe movement disorders secondary to chronic antipsychotic treatment (duration of treatment must be greater than 3 months). The disorder must persist for greater than 4 weeks ...

Patient

Health care; Pharmacy

* An individual who receives or requires health care services. * A person who possesses a unique set of needs, values, and beliefs that are brought to an interaction with a health care practitioner. ...

Haptoglobin

Health care; Pharmacy

A group of 2-globulins in human serum, so called because of their ability to combine with hemoglobin, preventing loss in the urine; levels are decreased in hemolytic disorders and increased in ...

Tolerance

Health care; Pharmacy

(1) A state of adaptation in which exposure to a drug induces changes that result in a diminution of one or more of the drug's effects over time. (2) The ability of the immune system to accept a ...

Negative formulary

Health care; Pharmacy

A drug formulary that starts out with every marketed drug product and specifically eliminates products that are considered inferior, unnecessary, unsafe, too expensive, and so forth.