dispensary
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thumbnail|A marijuana dispensary A dispensary is an office in a school, hospital, industrial plant, or other organization that dispenses medications, medical supplies, and in some cases even medical and dental treatment. In a traditional dispensary set-up, a pharmacist dispenses medication per the prescription or order form. The English term originated from the medieval Latin noun and is cognate with the Latin verb dispensare, 'to distribute'.
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- Subclass of
- medical facility
- Image
- Dispensaire-d'Anjozorobe.jpg
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- Commons category
- Dispensaries
- OpenStreetMap tag
- health_facility:type=dispensary
- different from
- hospital
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- Primary care (Kenya)
- Primary care (India)
- Tuberculosis (Turkey)
- Alcohol (United States)
- Cannabis
- North America
- Uruguay
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thumbnail|A marijuana dispensary A dispensary is an office in a school, hospital, industrial plant, or other organization that dispenses medications, medical supplies, and in some cases even medical and dental treatment. In a traditional dispensary set-up, a pharmacist dispenses medication per the prescription or order form. The English term originated from the medieval Latin noun and is cognate with the Latin verb dispensare, 'to distribute'.
The term also refers to legal cannabis dispensaries.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “dispensary” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.