What's the difference between chemist and druggist?

Chemist


Definition:

  • (n.) A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
  • (2) Not only was an alarming amount of fissile material going missing at the company, Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (Numec), but it had been visited by a veritable who's-who of Israeli intelligence, including Rafael Eitan, described by the firm as an Israeli defence ministry "chemist", but, in fact, a top Mossad operative who went on to head Lakam.
  • (3) The American actor played sinister rookie methylamine chemist Todd Alquist in the final season of Breaking Bad.
  • (4) A chemist working at Iran's main uranium enrichment plant was killed on Wednesday when attackers on a motorbike stuck a magnetic bomb to his car.
  • (5) Combining the data from cutaneous malignant melanoma over both sexes and both registries the occupations with the highest incidence ratios (expressed as a percentage) were: airline pilots, incidence ratio (IR) = 273, (95% confidence limits 118-538); finance and insurance brokers IR = 245 (140-398); professional accountants IR = 208 (134-307); dentists IR = 207 (133-309); inspectors and supervisors in transport IR = 206 (133-304); pharmacists IR = 198 (115-318); professionals not elsewhere classified IR = 196 (155-243); judges IR = 196 (126-289); doctors IR = 188 (140-248); university teachers IR = 188 (110-302); and chemists IR = 188 (111-296).
  • (6) As PM he would have tyrannised his cabinet as much as Thatcher did, but his economic mix of policies might have worked better than the lawyer-chemist's book-learning.
  • (7) A closer association between analytical chemists and toxicologists should prove beneficial to both and to the progress of science.
  • (8) The results were compared with those obtained using the Association of Official Analytical Chemists official digestion technique, which involves the use of nitric and sulphuric acids, and a second technique based on the action of nitric and perchloric acids.
  • (9) The peptide chemists are facing formidable challenges borne by a continually increasing interest in the pharmaceutical uses of peptides.
  • (10) While 92% doctors were aware about WHO-ORS, none of the chemists and only 4% nurses had this awareness.
  • (11) In an anthrax scare, talcum powder is removed from the chemist's shelves.
  • (12) On Wednesday, the AfD co-leader Frauke Petry – a former chemist who sees herself as representative of the party’s “realist” wing – announced via a video message on her Facebook page that she would not run as her party’s candidate in the September elections, citing the lack of a coherent strategy and expressing frustration with her party colleagues’ course of “maximum provocation”.
  • (13) The possibility of separating lipid materials on the basis of the number, type, and position of the unsaturated centers they contain, by virtue of the complexing of these unsaturated bonds with silver ions, provides a relatively recent but now very important addition to the range of separatory methods available to lipid chemists and biochemists.
  • (14) Computer-aided drug design is a current reality, but one that, at its best, supplements an incomplete methodology with the traditional insight and wisdom of an experienced medicinal chemist.
  • (15) To this end, a 'polymorphic programming environment' has been developed which represents both an expert system and a high-level language for theoretical chemists and molecular biologists.
  • (16) The Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC) test for assessing the tuberculocidal activity of disinfectants has been shown to be variable.
  • (17) Chemists and other scientists don't have to battle with that."
  • (18) The official Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC) spectrophotometric methods for both drugs are long, nonspecific, and require standard addition techniques.
  • (19) Each job history was reviewed by a team of chemists and industrial hygienists who translated it into a history of occupational exposures.
  • (20) For that purpose, chemists instead had to use quantum physics.

Druggist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; also, a pharmaceutist or apothecary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) v. Portland Retail Druggists Association, Inc. A United States Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Kaiser, holding that the HMO was purchasing drugs for its "own use" and thus qualified for exemption from the provisions of the Robinson-Patman Antidiscrimination Act.
  • (2) In this country any chemist or druggist can furnish the means of self-destruction or murder for a few pence, and in too many instances have done so with the utmost indifference.
  • (3) The central characters of the show entitled "Health and Merriment" were: the housewife Larimunda, the druggist Salim, and the clowns Banziero, Xulex, and Primentinha.
  • (4) v. Portland Retail Druggists Association and De Modena v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan have helped to clarify the answer to that question.
  • (5) The findings of the U.S. Supreme Court, in its March 24, 1976, decision in the case of Portland Retail Druggists vs Abbott Laboratories et al, are presented.
  • (6) Druggist, obstetrician, builder, lecturer, poet and philanderer, his career was a chequered and eventful one.
  • (7) Also, 80% of the respondents agreed with the statement concerning fear of going to a doctor or druggist out of fear of discovery.
  • (8) Ascertainment of the cases from these zones was made (a) by collecting data from the major hospitals and diabetes clinics by personal visit; (b) by questionnaire sent to medical practitioners in the area; and (c) from the chemists and druggists who sell insulin.
  • (9) The ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in Abbot Laboratories et al vs Portland Retail Druggists Association is discussed as it relates to hospital pharmacy purchasing practices.

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