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Definition of Pharmacopoeias
1. pharmacopoeia [n] - See also: pharmacopoeia
Medical Definition of Pharmacopoeias
1. Authoritative treatises on drugs and preparations, their description, formulation, analytic composition, physical constants, main chemical properties used in identification, standards for strength, purity, and dosage, chemical tests for determining identity and purity, etc. They are usually published under governmental jurisdiction (e.g., usp, the united states pharmacopoeia; bp, british pharmacopoeia; p. Helv., the swiss pharmacopoeia). They differ from formularies in that they are far more complete: formularies tend to be mere listings of formulas and prescriptions. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pharmacopoeias
Literary usage of Pharmacopoeias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics, or, the Action of drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1918)
"These codes are known as Pharmacopoeias, and some differences exist between ...
All the drugs used in therapeutics are not found in the pharmacopoeias, ..."
2. Principles of Pharmacy by Henry Vinecome Arny (1917)
"PRINCIPLES OF PHARMACY PART I PHARMACEUTIC OPERATIONS AND APPLIANCES CHAPTER I
Pharmacopoeias AND OTHER BOOKS ON PHARMACY The earliest works answering to a ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1843)
"Л Conspectus of the Pharmacopoeias of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges
of Physicians, and. of the United Slates Pharmacopoeia, being a Practical ..."
4. A Compend of Human Anatomy by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1903)
"... its progress must be slow, being dependent upon the advances made in all these
fundamental branches of knowledge. Pharmacopoeias AND ..."
5. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1868)
"A second table is given, showing the changes made in the preparations of the
three Pharmacopoeias. That indispensable addition to all books of this kind, ..."
6. A Handbook of materia medica, pharmacy and therapeutics by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1901)
"In foreign countries the Pharmacopoeias are published under government auspices
... The official Pharmacopoeias in the English language, with the dates of ..."
7. American Druggist (1893)
"The latter is not official in either the German or the Austrian pharmacopoeias,
though it was introduced into the United States. On the other hand, ..."
8. A Treatise on Pharmacy for Students and Pharmacists by Charles Caspari, Evander Francis Kelly (1920)
"The first United States Pharmacopoeia was established in 1820, prior to which
time various foreign pharmacopoeias had been in use in this country. ..."
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