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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Coverage rules

Health care; Pharmacy

Criteria for specific drugs determined by the health plan in conjunction with the pharmacy and therapeutics committee that is used to determine if a prescription is covered. Criteria are based on ...

Culture negative endocarditis

Health care; Pharmacy

Describes a patient in whom a clinical diagnosis of infective endocarditis is likely, but blood cultures do not yield a pathogen.

Allergic shiners

Health care; Pharmacy

Dark circles under the eyes as a result of nasal congestion leading to venous pooling.

Bradykinesia

Health care; Pharmacy

Delay or slowness in initiating and performing purposeful, voluntary movement as seen in Parkinsonism.

Aneuploid

Health care; Pharmacy

Deviation by a whole number in the total number of chromosomes in a cell compared to normal (46 in humans).

Dysentery

Health care; Pharmacy

Diarrhoea characterised by blood, mucus, and leukocytes in the stool with tenesmus and fever.

Inflammation of a diverticulum, especially of the small pockets in the wall of the colon that fill with stagnant faecal material and become inflamed; rarely, they can cause obstruction, perforation, ...