DRUGGIS

Domain	Definition
Occupations	Compounds and dispenses prescribed medications, drugs, and other pharmaceuticals for patient care, according to professional standards and state and federal legal requirements: Reviews prescriptions issued by physician, or other authorized prescriber to assure accuracy and determine formulas and ingredients needed. Compounds medications, using standard formulas and processes, such as weighing, measuring, and mixing ingredients. Directs pharmacy workers engaged in mixing, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals. Answers questions and provides information to pharmacy customers on drug interactions, side effects, dosage and storage of pharmaceuticals. Maintains established procedures concerning quality assurance, security of controlled substances, and disposal of hazardous waste drugs. Enters data, such as patient name, prescribed medication and cost, to maintain pharmacy files, charge system, and inventory. May assay medications to determine identity, purity, and strength. May instruct interns and other medical personnel on matters pertaining to pharmacy, or teach in college of pharmacy. May work in hospital pharmacy and be designated Pharmacist, Hospital (medical ser.). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations: DRUGGIS

Anagrams: DRUGGIS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-g-g-i-r-s-u"
	-2 letters: drugs, girds, grids, grigs, guids.
	-3 letters: digs, drug, dugs, gids, gigs, gird, grid, grig, guid, rids, rigs, rugs, surd, urds.
	-4 letters: dig, dis, dug, dui, gid, gig, ids, rid, rig, rug, sir, sri, urd.
	-5 letters: id, is, si, us.
	Words containing the letters "d-g-g-i-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: druggies, druggist.
	+2 letters: druggiest, druggists.
	+3 letters: desugaring, groundings, ruggedizes.
	+4 letters: budgerigars, disfiguring, groundlings.
	+5 letters: discouraging, disgruntling, safeguarding.
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Alternative Orthography: DRUGGIS

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

HTML Code (1990) (references)

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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Specialty Definition: DRUGGIS

Derivations
	Words beginning with "DRUGGIS": druggist, druggists. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).