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pharmacology

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Word definitions for pharmacology in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context medicine English) The science of drugs including their origin, composition, pharmacokinetics, therapeutic use, and toxicology. 2 (context medicine English) The properties and reactions of drugs especially with relation to their therapeutic ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As a specialist in pathology, physiology and pharmacology , Mrs Coll received many teaching awards. ▪ Attractive subject combinations with psychology are pharmacology , physiology and behavioural neuroscience. ▪ Can we understand ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pharmacology \Phar`ma*col"o*gy\, n. [Gr. fa`rmakon drug + -logy: cf. F. pharmacologie.] Knowledge of drugs or medicines; the art of preparing medicines. A treatise on the art of preparing medicines.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the science or study of drugs: their preparation and properties and uses and effects [syn: pharmacological medicine , materia medica ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pharmacology is the branch of medicine and biology concerned with the study of drug action, where a drug can be broadly defined as any man-made, natural, or endogenous (from within body) molecule which exerts a biochemical and/or physiological effect on ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1721, formed in Modern Latin (1680s) from pharmaco- + -logy . Related: Pharmacological .

Usage examples of pharmacology.

Long before the rest of the psychiatric community converted, he was preaching the doctrine that psychobiology was the key to the etiology of mental illness and pharmacology was the key to treatment.

The new processes that were developed changed not only medicine but pharmacology, agriculture, and dozens of other fields.

He once told me he had worked as a younger man in the Ministry of Health, within a facility he called the Institute of Pharmacology, in some sort of intelligence capacity.

The pharmacology institute specialized in developing toxins to induce paralysis or death.

Butuzov no longer worked at the pharmacology institute, what was he doing at the Yasenovo laboratory?

The thought that he was a surgeon in the company of pharmacology specialists, talking about their field of expertise rather than his, made him even more apprehensive.

Because my papers indicated that I had some experience in pharmacology, I was sent to work for him.

Lokos was a wealthy man, employed a large retinue of servants and saw to it that every minute his apprentices were not eating, sleeping or devoting to duties in shop, workrooms or garden, they were reading his extensive collection of works on pharmacology, human and animal physiology, differing theories respecting the treatment of wounds, injuries and illnesses, horticulture of herbs and a vast array of other interrelated subjects.

There, they had to convince the existing brain disciplines of their relevance - a problem that was never faced by certain other new subjects, such as pharmacology.

Rejuvenation pharmacology had been their main cash cow, and the reason they had so much influence in the Conselline Sept.

Paul-or the flesh-and-blood man whose memories he'd inherited-had traced the history of Copies back to the turn of the century, when researchers had begun to fine-tune the generic computer models used for surgical training and pharmacology, transforming them into customized versions able to predict the needs and problems of individual patients.

Paulor the flesh-and-blood man whose memories he'd inheritedhad traced the history of Copies back to the turn of the century, when researchers had begun to fine-tune the generic computer models used for surgical training and pharmacology, transforming them into customized versions able to predict the needs and problems of individual patients.

Walnut bookcases were crowded with journals about genetics, evolutionary theory, pharmacology and medicine.