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extemporaneous preparation

noun/ɛkˌstɛmpəˈreɪniəs prɛpəˈreɪʃən/

C2CEFR level
82/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A medicine compounded by the pharmacist to meet an individual patient's needs when no suitable licensed product exists.

With no commercial liquid available, we had to make an extemporaneous preparation of the drug for the infant.

Similar: compounding

Topic: Pharmacy practice in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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