drug or medicine that is prepared or dispensed in pharmacies and used in medical treatment of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists; "the pharmaceutical industry"
Of or pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines according to the rules or formulas of pharmacy; as, pharmaceutical preparations
Pharmaceuticals are medicines. Antibiotics were of no use, neither were other pharmaceuticals. relating to the production of drugs and medicines (pharmaceuticus, from , from pharmakeuein ; PHARMACY)