A pharmacopoeia, pharmacopeia, or pharmacopoea (from the obsolete typography pharmacopœia, meaning "drug-making"), in its modern technical sense, is a book containing directions for the identification of compound medicines, and published by the authority of a government or a medical or pharmaceutical society.[1]
Descriptions of preparations are called monographs. In a broader sense it is a reference work for pharmaceutical drug specifications.
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Holmes, Edward Morell (1911). "Pharmacopoeia". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 353–355.
