Pharmaceutic - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: pharmaceuticPharmaceutic
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...
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. See CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST....
Pharmaceutical substance
Pharmaceutical substance, means any new entity involving one or more inventive steps. [Patents Act, 1970, s. 2(ta)]...
Chemists and druggists
Chemists and druggists. The (English) Pharmacy Act, 1933, provides for registration and abrogates certain provisions of the (English) Pharmacy Acts of 1852, 1868 and 1869, the (English) Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908, the Dangerous Drugs Acts, 1920, 1923 and 1925, which otherwise regulate the business of chemists and druggists, and provide for their examination. Any registered person is entitled to sell drugs, other than poisons which are contained in the Schedules to the Act of 1933 or added thereto under the provisions of that Act. Others must not falsely imply that they are registered members of the Pharmaceutical Society or use the description of chemist, druggist, pharmacist, etc. Only authorized persons may sell poisons. It is an offence to use such titles unless authorized by the Pharmacy Acts. Medical practitioners, qualified veterinary surgeons, and certain other persons, as, for example, those selling certain scheduled poisonous substances for agricultural purposes, are not w...
Frye test
Frye test [from United States v. Frye, 293 F. 1013 (1923), the case that established the rule] : a common-law rule of evidence: the results of scientific tests or procedures are admissible as evidence only when the tests or procedures have gained general acceptance in the particular field to which they belong called also Frye rule NOTE: In Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 509 U.S. 579 (1993), the Supreme Court held that the Federal Rules of Evidence supersede the Frye test, and as a result scientific evidence (as expert testimony) needs to meet only the requirements of the Federal Rules of Evidence in order to be admissible. ...
wrongful pregnancy
wrongful pregnancy : a malpractice claim brought by the parents of a healthy but unwanted child usually against a physician or health-care provider for alleged negligence in performing a sterilization or abortion procedure and sometimes against a pharmacist or pharmaceutical manufacturer of contraceptives ;also : the pregnancy or injury at issue in such a claim [an action for wrongful pregnancy] called also wrongful conception NOTE: A majority of courts faced with the issue have disallowed damages for child-rearing expenses in wrongful pregnancy cases. It is more common to recover for medical expenses, pain and suffering, lost wages, or loss of consortium from pregnancy and childbirth. ...
Bain marie
A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations...
bioreactor
an apparatus in which a suspension of microorganisms in a liquid are used to perform chemical reactions as in synthesis of pharmaceutical agents or the conversion of harmful waste to less harmful substances The reactor consists of a vessel to contain the suspension of microorganisms plus a variety of attached devices used to control the reaction...
Carrageenan
a colloidal material obtained from seaweed or Irish moss used as an thickening or emulsifying agent and for stabilizing foods cosmetics and pharmaceuticals...
eucalyptol
A volatile terpenelike oil C10H18O which is the main constituent of the oil of eucalyptus It has cockroach repellent activity and is used as a flavoring aid in pharmaceuticals Chemically it is 133 trimethyl 2 oxabicyclo 222 octane...
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