Definition of Officinal. Meaning of Officinal. Synonyms of Officinal

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Definition of Officinal

Officinal
Officinal Of*fic"i*nal, a. [F., fr. L. officina a workshop, contr.fr. opificina, fr. opifex a workman; opus work + facere to make or do.] 1. Used in a shop, or belonging to it. [Obs. or R.] --Johnson. 2. (Pharm.) Kept in stock by apothecaries; -- said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral. Note: This term is often interchanged with official, but in strict use officinal drugs are not necessarily official. See Official, a., 3.

Meaning of Officinal from wikipedia

- Officinal drugs, plants and herbs are those which are sold in a chemist or druggist shop. Officinal medical preparations of such drugs are made in accordance...
- Joseph R. Buchanan; R.S. Newton (1854). Wm. Phillips and co. (ed.). "Officinal preparations". The Eclectic Medical Journal. Wm. Phillips and co. Lambert...
- notices of Climate and of celebrated Mineral Waters. Formaiœ for various officinal and empirical Preparations, etc". The American Journal of the Medical...
- universal formulary: containing the methods of preparing and administering officinal and other medicines. The whole adapted to physicians and pharmaceutists...
- restricted to the manufacture of pharmaceutical specialities, master formulas, officinal preparations, homeopathic strains and research.  Sweden Illegal Illegal...
- Importation Act 1795 35 Geo. 3. c. 15 16 March 1795 An act for rendering officinal his Majesty's orders in council of the sixteenth and twenty-first days...
- Breynia vitis-idaea, the officinal breynia, is a perennial tree-like species of Phyllanthaceae (Euphorbiaceae s.l.), found from India east to Taiwan and...
- illustration of the genus Cinchona :comprising descriptions of all the officinal Peruvian barks, including several new species, Baron de Humboldt's Account...
- Notices of Climate, and of Celebrated Mineral Waters, Formulae for Various Officinal and Empirical Preparations, Etc. Lea and Blanchard. Elder JF, Dresler...
- Tunisie in sales turnover in hospitals, clinics and pharmacies. On the officinal market it supplied doctors and pharmacies with an 8.4% market share. The...