Definition of "pharmacopoeia" []

• A book containing an official list of medicinal drugs together with articles on their preparation and use. (noun)
• A collection or stock of drugs. (noun)

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• "He supported the Cuban idea of establishing regional Latin American pharmacopoeia so as to give the best sources of medicinal plants."
• "And I learnt that the only emetic known to the Albanian pharmacopoeia is human excrement and water – given in all cases of supposed poisoning; and that the remedy for dipsomania is the same, mixed with rakia."
• "Presumably both have magnets which would be affected while Justine's trippy, electric hand-trails are perhaps more evidence of Von Trier's recent episode in pharmacopoeia, perhaps while watching the wood-spirits in Avatar?"