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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a compounding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a process or situation that involves the accumulation or increase of something, often in a financial or mathematical sense.
Example: "The interest on the loan is calculated using a compounding method that increases the total amount owed over time."
Alternatives: "an accumulation" or "a buildup".
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Virtually every acute-care hospital has a compounding pharmacy on-site that prepares drugs for patients.
That appears to be a reference to The Apothecary Shoppe, a compounding pharmacy in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
These and other disheartening factors have a compounding, negative effect on a woman's superannuation savings.
"Humans were polluting it, and it was a compounding problem," she said.
In October 2012 an outbreak of fungal meningitis in the US was traced back to a compounding center in Massachusetts.
And this is usually done in the doctor's office, not under the sterile conditions of a compounding pharmacy.
Last year a judge forced Pennsylvania to reveal that it had obtained drugs from a compounding pharmacy.
Brazilian colonists, facing a compounding labour shortage in the mid-16th century, imported increasing numbers of African slaves.
So Missouri turned to a compounding pharmacy, much as other states have done when faced with shortages of execution drugs.
Among those sued was Infupharma, a compounding pharmacy that was said to have divided the Avastin into tiny doses.
Texas prison officials obtained a supply of pentobarbital from a compounding pharmacy in suburban Houston last year.
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