pharmacopoeia
noun/ˌfɑːməkəˈpiːə/
/ˌfɑːrməkəˈpiːə/
(North American English also pharmacopeia)
(specialist)- an official book containing a list of medicines and drugs and instructions for their useWord Originearly 17th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek pharmakopoiia ‘art of preparing drugs’, based on pharmakon ‘drug’ + -poios ‘making’.
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