pharmacist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A health professional who controls, formulates, preserves, and dispenses medications and provides medical advice and counseling on how medicines should be used in order to achieve maximum benefit, and minimal side effects in order to avoid drug interactions.

   He has served as a prescriptionist to the leading pharmacists of the old country, and been employed in many of our American cities.

2. 2
   noun

   a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs

3. 3
   noun

   One who studies pharmacy.

Etymology

From pharmacy (“the art of preparing drugs, a drug, especially laxatives”) + -ist.