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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* A detailed schedule outlining the practitioner's and the patient's activities and responsibilities; designed to achieve goals of therapy, and resolve and prevent drug therapy problems * organised ...

Diabetes mellitus

Health care; Pharmacy

A disorder of carbohydrate regulation caused by either a markedly reduced or absent production of insulin by the pancreas (type I) or a decreased sensitivity to the effects of insulin in the ...

Cutoff point

Health care; Pharmacy

A value on an ordinal or a continuous scale of measurement used to distinguish categories. For example, values above this threshold may be classified as "abnormal" and values below this point may be ...

Cluster headache

Health care; Pharmacy

A primary headache disorder characterised by attacks of severe unilateral headache pain that occurs in series of weeks or months (cluster periods) separated by remission periods usually lasting ...

Creatinine

Health care; Pharmacy

A protein metabolic by-product obtained from the diet or generated from muscles of the body. Creatinine is removed from blood by the kidneys; as kidney disease progresses, the level of creatinine in ...