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Knowledge of drugs or medicines; the art of preparing medicines.
n. NOT [PHARMACY], but rather the study of chemical interactions in living [organisms], especially those with possible [therapeutic] value.
The branch of medicine concerned with the uses, effects, and modes of action of drugs.
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