A place where prescription drugs are dispensed, a dispensary, a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold, The science of medicinal substances comprising pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, phytochemistry and forensics

the science or study of drugs_ their preparation and properties and uses and effects, medicine The science that studies the effects of chemical compounds on living animals, especially the science of the manufacture, use and effects of medicinal drugs, The characteristics or properties of a drug, especially those that make it medically effective