chemist

In British English, this term is used interchangeably to refer to both the professional pharmacist and the physical pharmacy store. This dual usage creates a semantic overlap where the person and the place are denoted by the same word, depending on the context of the sentence. In American English, the term is almost exclusively reserved for a scientist who studies chemistry in a laboratory or academic setting. A person who dispenses medication in the US is referred to as a pharmacist, and the location is called a pharmacy or drugstore.