资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pharmaceutic \Phar`ma*ceu"tic\ (f[aum]r`m[.a]*s[=u]"t[i^]k),
Pharmaceutical \Phar`ma*ceu"tic*al\ (-t[i^]*kal), a. [L.
   pharmaceuticus, Gr. farmakeytiko`s, fr. farmakey`ein: cf. F.
   pharmaceutique. See {Pharmacy}.]
   Of or pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to
   the art of preparing medicines according to the rules or
   formulas of pharmacy; as, pharmaceutical preparations. --
   {Phar`ma*ceu"tic*al*ly}, adv.

   {Pharmaceutical chemistry}, that department of chemistry
      which ascertains or regulates the composition of medicinal
      substances.