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Medical Definition of Pharmacuetical
1. Of or pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines according to the rules or formulas of pharmacy; as, pharmaceutical preparations. Pharmacue"tically, Pharmaceutical chemistry, that department of chemistry which ascertains or regulates the composition of medicinal substances. Origin: L. Pharmaceuticus, Gr, fr., cf. F. Pharmaceutique. See Pharmacy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)