Officinal

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  • adjective. Readily available in pharmacies; not requiring special preparation.
  • adjective. Recognized by a pharmacopoeia.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to a shop or laboratory; used in a shop or laboratory. Especially
  • Of an apothecary's shop: applied in pharmacy to preparations made according to recognized prescriptions; specifically, prescribed in the pharmacopÅ“ia.
  • In botany, used in medicine or the arts.
  • noun. A drug or medicine sold in an apothecary's shop; specifically, a drug prepared according to the pharmacopÅ“ia.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Used in a shop, or belonging to it.
  • adjective. Kept in stock by apothecaries; -- said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Medicinal.
  • adjective. Used in a shop, or belonging to it.
  • adjective. Kept in stock by apothecaries; said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral.
  • Word Usage
    "An officinal tincture is made from the plants collected in the spring, when two years old; also, in some villages the infusion is employed as a homely remedy to cure a cold, the herb being known as "Throttle Wort;" but this is not a safe thing to do, for medical experience shows that the watery infusion of"
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