pharmaceutical
adjective/ˌfɑrməˈsuːtɪkəl/
Frequency rank: #4,799 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
relating to medicinal drugs or the industry that produces them
Example sentence
The company invested heavily in pharmaceutical research to develop new medicines.
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