Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

compounding pharmacy

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English

Syllables
com-pound-ing phar-ma-cy
IPA
39
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A pharmacy in which therapeutic drugs are created in small batches, generally when the patient needs a formulation which is not readily available from manufactured drugs.

Australian usage; New Zealand usage; American usage

Usage

Inflected Forms

compounding pharmacies (plural)

Questions

What does compounding pharmacy mean?
A pharmacy in which therapeutic drugs are created in small batches, generally when the patient needs a formulation which is not readily available from manufactured drugs.

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