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Answer for the clue "Someone trained in the science of drugs (their composition and uses and effects) ", 14 letters:
pharmacologist

Word definitions for pharmacologist in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1728, from pharmacology + -ist .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pharmacology English) A student of pharmacology; one versed in the science of pharmacology.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pharmacologist \Phar`ma*col"o*gist\, n. [Cf. F. pharmacologiste.] One skilled in pharmacology.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone trained in the science of drugs (their composition and uses and effects) [syn: pharmaceutical chemist ]

Usage examples of pharmacologist.

I expect the Lord Remembrancer, if not the Lord Cetic, will soon expose our pharmacologist and debase him.

It is interesting that several years later, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a research group in Magdeburg, in what was then East Germany, led by the pharmacologist Hans-Jurgen Matthies, claimed that large doses of a precursor of RNA, orotic acid, would improve memory in rats trained on a variety of lab tasks.

Without pleasantries or introductions, the names of the chemicals he desired began rolling off his tongue, with such felicity McDorr realized at once that, despite his dress, the man must be either a fellow pharmacologist or a chemist.

Heliotrope was a paraplegic pharmacologist from Berkeley, beautiful and brilliant, and a bathtub chemist of underground renown.

Mark Kolodny was the pharmacologist, and he was convinced that he was turning into some sort of Pan or satyrlike creature and he had no idea why.

Kolodny, the pharmacologist, had what may have been the most likely idea, although it, too, was unsettling.

Directors General for food and agriculture as well as analysis by British pharmacologist John Verrall.

Milton Silverman, a pharmacologist and faculty member of the University of California at San Francisco.

It was in 1886 that the German pharmacologist, Ludwig Lewin, published the first systematic study of the cactus, to which his own name was subsequently given.

Most of the speakers at conferences such as this were microbiologists and pharmacologists, experts in the research and manufacture of drugs.

Because the drugs the pharmacologists played with influence behaviour, physiologists and psychiatrists seemed to have much less difficulty in accepting that they must be important.

Within the next half-century, with all genes identified and all possible cellular interactions and reactions charted, pharmacologists developing a drug or toxicologists trying to predict whether a substance is poisonous may well turn to computer models of cells to answer their questions.

In addition, pharmacologists can use pure proteins to help them find new drugs.

We are confident that partial cDNA sequences will allow pharmacologists to make more use of rational drug design.

By the time Chris was through, he had hired six fulltime class-A researcherstwo pharmacologists plus a medicinal chemist, a microbiologist, a protein chemist, and a geneticist.