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dispensatory

 [dis-pen´sah-tor″e]
a book that describes medicines and their preparation and uses.
dispensatory of the United States of America a collection of monographs on unofficial drugs and drugs recognized by the Pharmacopeia of the United States, the Pharmacopoeia of Great Britain, and the National Formulary, also on general tests, processes, reagents, and solutions of the U.S.P. and N.F., as well as drugs used in veterinary medicine.

Dispensatory

(dis-pen'să-tō-rē),
A work originally intended as a commentary on the Pharmacopeia, but now more of a supplement to that work, which contains an account of the sources, mode of preparation, physiologic action, and therapeutic uses of most of the agents, official and nonofficial; used in the treatment of disease.
[L. dispensator, a manager, steward; see dispensary]

dispensatory

/dis·pen·sa·to·ry/ (-pen´sah-tor″e) a book that describes medicines and their preparation and uses.
Dispensatory of the United States of America  a collection of monographs on unofficial drugs and drugs recognized by the United States Pharmacopeia, the British Pharmacopoeia, and the National Formulary; also on general tests, processes, reagents, and solutions of the U.S.P. and N.F., as well as drugs used in veterinary medicine.

dispensatory

(dĭ-spĕn′sə-tôr′ē)
n. pl. dispensato·ries
A book in which the contents, preparation, and uses of medicines are described; a pharmacopoeia.

Dis·pen·sa·to·ry

(dis-pen'să-tōr-ē)
A work originally intended as a commentary on the Pharmacopeia, but now more of a supplement to that work, which contains an account of the sources, mode of preparation, physiologic action, and therapeutic uses of most of the agents, official and nonofficial, used in the treatment of disease.
[L. dispensator, a manager, steward]

Dis·pen·sa·to·ry

(dis-pen'să-tōr-ē)
A work originally intended as a commentary on the Pharmacopeia, but now more of a supplement to that work.
[L. dispensator, a manager, steward]

dispensatory

a book that describes medicines and their preparation and uses.
dispensatory of the United States of America
a collection of monographs on unofficial drugs and drugs recognized by the Pharmacopeia of the United States, the Pharmacopoeia of Great Britain, and the National Formulary, also on general tests, processes, reagents, and solutions of the USP and NF, as well as drugs used in veterinary medicine.
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