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  • noun Alternative form of pharmacopoeia.

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Examples

  • The pharmacopeia commonly used in New Spain, apart from the addition of several native medicines, was not that much different from that being used in Europe.

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • The Chinese pharmacopeia is full of stuff Western medicine hasn't gotten around to exploring.

    Shading the Odds Steve Perry 2010

  • The healthful virtues of what is generally extolled as a Mediterranean diet have become so well accepted in the last twenty years that the diet has entered the pharmacopeia of doctors treating the overweight and patients at risk for diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

    Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010

  • They are some of the most benign pills known to the pharmacopeia.

    Answers to Questions from Readers, part 6 Steve Carper 2007

  • Our ancestors understood that fruits, as part of the forest pharmacopeia, were full of medicinal attributes.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Our ancestors understood that fruits, as part of the forest pharmacopeia, were full of medicinal attributes.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • They have now identified at least 15 plant species that constitute what they call "the pharmacopeia of the apes."

    Take Two Roots; Call Me . . . 2008

  • Our ancestors understood that fruits, as part of the forest pharmacopeia, were full of medicinal attributes.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • IN THAT turned-on, tuned-out decade, the pharmacopeia of mind-altering drugs was about as subtle as a sledgehammer-uppers replaced sleep, downers offered calm, hallucinogens projected visions of marmalade skies into the brain.

    One Pill Makes You Larger, And One Pill Makes You 2008

  • Of all the drugs in the designer pharmacopeia, the most popular nationwide is MDMA, or Ecstasy.

    The New View From On High 2008

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