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Usp Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
Usp Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries
abbrev. Unique Selling Proposition.
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a marketing claim based upon a distinctive product feature or unique element in the marketing - mix (see gaining competitive advantage) (see unique emotional proposition).
Copyright © 2001, Ray WrightUsp Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
United States Pharmacopeial Convention Establishes and disseminates officially recognized standards of quality and authoritative information for use in manufacturing and testing drugs, excipients, and raw materials. Web site.
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Usp Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
USP may refer to:
- Heckler & Koch USP pistol
- NUS University Scholars Programme
- Ultrashort pulse laser, a laser that emits ultrashort pulses of light, generally of the order of femtoseconds to hundreds of femtoseconds
- Ultraspiracle protein, a part of the ecdysone receptor
- Unique selling proposition, a marketing concept that was first proposed as a theory to explain a pattern among successful advertising campaigns of the early 1940s
- Unité Spéciale de la Police, a special unit of the Luxembourg Grand Ducal Police
- United States patent
- United States Pharmacopeia, an official public standards-setting authority for all prescription and over-the-counter medicines and other health care products manufactured or sold in the United States
- USP DI (United States Pharmacopeia Dispensing Information), a comprehensive drug information database that is available online through EBSCO Publishing as well as in two print editions:
- USP DI Volume I: Drug Information for the Health Care Professional
- USP DI Volume II: Advice for the Patient, Drug Information in Lay Language
- United States Pharmacopeia unit (USP unit), a standard dosage unit for a drug or vitamin; is equal to the international unit in most cases
- USP DI (United States Pharmacopeia Dispensing Information), a comprehensive drug information database that is available online through EBSCO Publishing as well as in two print editions:
- Universal Storage Platform, the brand name for an Hitachi Data Systems line of enterprise storage arrays
- University of São Paulo, a public university of the Brazilian state of São Paulo
- University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
- University of the South Pacific, a public university with a number of locations in Oceania
- U.S. Penitentiary
- USp (2n), the symplectic group
- USP Networks
- USS Saint Paul
- Utah State Prison, located in Draper, Utah, United States, about 20 miles southwest of Salt Lake City
- Uttama Seva Padakkama, a military decoration in Sri Lanka
- Unified settlement planning, a form of holistic planning model in India
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Usp Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries
The United States Pharmacopoeia is a reference volume, published every five years by the U.S. Pharmacopoeial Convention, which describes and defines approved therapeutic agents, as well as sets standards for purity, assay, etc. Agents are included on the basis of their therapeutic value. The U.S.P. is recognized by the F.D.A. as the official standard for the agents described therein.
The purpose of the Pharmacopoeia, as described in the Preface to the first edition in 1820 by Dr. Jacob Bigelow, are to :
1.Select the best, established drugs (those "the utility of which is most fully established and best understood").
2.Set standards of pharmaceutical quality for them ("form from them preparations and compositions in which their powers may be exerted to the greatest advantage").
3.Name them ("distinguish those articles by convenient and definite names, such as may prevent trouble or uncertainty in the intercourse of physicians and apothecaries").
4.Encourage their use ("the value of a Pharmacopoeia depends upon the fidelity with which it conforms to the best state of medical knowledge of the day. Its usefulness depends upon the sanction it receives from the medical community and the public; and the extent to which it governs the language and practice of those for whose use it is intended:).
The purpose of the Pharmacopoeia, as described in the Preface to the first edition in 1820 by Dr. Jacob Bigelow, are to :
1.Select the best, established drugs (those "the utility of which is most fully established and best understood").
2.Set standards of pharmaceutical quality for them ("form from them preparations and compositions in which their powers may be exerted to the greatest advantage").
3.Name them ("distinguish those articles by convenient and definite names, such as may prevent trouble or uncertainty in the intercourse of physicians and apothecaries").
4.Encourage their use ("the value of a Pharmacopoeia depends upon the fidelity with which it conforms to the best state of medical knowledge of the day. Its usefulness depends upon the sanction it receives from the medical community and the public; and the extent to which it governs the language and practice of those for whose use it is intended:).
