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Definition of Officinal
1. a. Used in a shop, or belonging to it.
Definition of Officinal
1. Adjective. Medicinal. ¹
2. Adjective. (obsolete rare) Used in a shop, or belonging to it. ¹
3. Adjective. (obsolete pharmaceutical) Kept in stock by apothecaries; said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Officinal
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Officinal
1.
1. Used in a shop, or belonging to it.
2.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Officinal
Literary usage of Officinal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on pharmacy by Edward Parrish, Thomas S. Wiegand (1884)
"There are two kinds of wine officinal in the US ... In all the medicated wines
which are officinal, sherry wine is directed as the menstruum. ..."
2. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1917)
"By officinal drugs he means those usually kept in shops which may be used in ...
To this list we now add all the common officinal drugs as well as some of ..."
3. Medical lexiconby Robley Dunglison by Robley Dunglison (1851)
"A UNIVERSAL FORMULARY CONTAINING THE METHODS OF PREPARING AND ADMINISTERING
officinal AND OTHER MEDICINES, THE WHOLE ADAPTED TO PHYSICIANS AND ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"Dentistry, etc. ; Notices of Climate, and of Mineral Waters ; Formula; for
officinal, Empirical, and Dietetic Preparations, etc., with French and other ..."
5. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1876)
"AN officinal MULTIPLE ANTIDOTE. (From Dr. RICHARDSON'S Report on ... This formula
is certainly preferable to the officinal hydrate peroxide of iron, ..."
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