dispensary

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dis·pen·sa·ry

(dĭ-spĕn′sə-rē)

n. pl. dis·pen·sa·ries

1. An office in a hospital, school, or other institution from which medical supplies, preparations, and treatments are dispensed.

2. A public institution that dispenses medicines or medical aid.

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dispensary

(dɪˈspɛnsərɪ; -srɪ)

n, pl -ries

(Pharmacology) a place where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed

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dis•pen•sa•ry

(dɪˈspɛn sə ri)

n., pl. -ries.

a place where something is dispensed, esp. medicines.

[1690–1700]

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Noun

dispensary - clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed

clinic - a healthcare facility for outpatient care

Translations

مُسْتَوْصَف

lékárnavýdejna léků

receptur

lyfjageymsla

dispensary

[dɪsˈpensərɪ] N (gen) → dispensario m; (in hospital) → farmacia f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

dispensary

[dɪˈspɛnsəri] n (in hospital) → pharmacie f; (in chemist's) → officine f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

dispensary

n (in hospital) → (Krankenhaus)apotheke f; (in chemist’s) → Apothekenabteilung f; (= clinic) → Dispensarium nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

dispensary

[dɪsˈpɛns/ərɪ] n → farmacia; (clinic) → dispensario, ambulatorio

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

dispense

(diˈspens) verb

1. to give or deal out.

2. to prepare (medicines, especially prescriptions) for giving out.

diˈspensary – plural diˈspensaries – noun

a place especially in a hospital where medicines are given out.

diˈspenser noun

dispense with

to get rid of or do without. We could economize by dispensing with two assistants.

dis·pen·sa·ry

n. dispensario, clínica, establecimiento que proporciona asistencia médica y dispensa medicamentos.

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These methods must have certainly been used with some success in disorders of the like kind, or so skilful a practitioner as Mrs Honour would never have ventured to apply them; nay, I have heard that the college of chambermaids hold them to be as sovereign remedies as any in the female dispensary; but whether it was that Sophia's disease differed inwardly from those cases with which it agreed in external symptoms, I will not assert; but, in fact, the good waiting-woman did more harm than good, and at last so incensed her mistress (which was no easy matter) that with an angry voice she dismissed her from her presence.

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"I'm just going to take this round to the dispensary to have it made up, and then I'll come back."

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It's a regulation of natur --a dispensary, as your poor mother-in-law used to say.'

Weller; 'I call it a dispensary, and it's always writ up so, at the places vere they gives you physic for nothin' in your own bottles; that's all.'

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Brocklehurst and his family never came near Lowood now: household matters were not scrutinised into; the cross housekeeper was gone, driven away by the fear of infection; her successor, who had been matron at the Lowton Dispensary, unused to the ways of her new abode, provided with comparative liberality.

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1821 the only officially supported charitable organization in New York City was the City Dispensary -- municipal aid to others having been cut off in 1817 on the grounds that charity to the poor only made them lazy and improvident}

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You know, it often is so - those simple, old-fashioned remedies are sometimes more efficacious than all the dispensary stuff.

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The crowd had only the satisfaction of accompanying Oliver through two or three streets, and down a place called Mutton Hill, when he was led beneath a low archway, and up a dirty court, into this dispensary of summary justice, by the back way.

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But I'm not a nurse, thank heaven, I work in the dispensary."

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His residence and principal consulting-room is at Kennington Road, but he has a branch surgery and dispensary at Lower Brixton Road, two miles away.

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Another official of the RCB said that strangely all the dispensary buildings were constructed in and around Peshawar Road such as Chur Chowk, Siam, Misrial Road and Dhoke Gujran.