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Stomach's in order when given a pharmaceutical compound (6)

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I believe the answer is:

omasal

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'a pharmaceutical compound' is the definition.
The definition suggests an adjective which matches the answer.

'stomach's in order when given' is the wordplay.
'stomach's in' becomes 'al' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'order' becomes 'om' (Order of Merit).
'when' becomes 'as' (eg 'when I walked' means 'as I walked').
'given' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'om'+'as'='omas'
'al' put after 'omas' is 'OMASAL'.

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(Other definitions for omasal that I've seen before include "Concerning beastly insides" , "Connected with stomach" .)

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