pharmacology
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- noun
- /ˌfɑːrməˈkɑːlədʒi/
- Specialized
:
farmacología
- To become a pharmacist, she pursued a degree in pharmacology to learn about medications.
- behavioral pharmacology
- pharmacology research
- clinical pharmacology
That's the realm of chemistry and pharmacology.
- That's the realm of chemistry and pharmacology.
- Ayahuasca is an orally active form of DMT, but no one understood that pharmacology at that time.
- So it's going to be a very interesting presentation that combines ethnography, chemistry and pharmacology.
- And so, you know, we think we pretty clearly debunked that idea that the underlying pharmacology and the state, you know, seem to be important.
- You can decide to combine pharmacology with these learning practices.
- Maybe embrace pharmacology if that's appropriate.
- But if you want to talk about pharmacology, sleep, exercise, nothing is more murky than nutrition.
Examples
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Learn about the science of pharmacology, how drugs work in the body, and recent research developments.
Academic text (2007) -
More research in humans is essential, says Carmen Marsit, an assistant professor of pharmacology and toxicology at Dartmouth University.
Academic text (2012) -
I'm a pharmacology student, Laney.
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Whatever else they'd erased from her mind, she still remembered those pharmacology lectures in medical school.
Fiction book (1998) -
The study of pharmacology helps us understand how different drugs affect the body.
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In his lecture on pharmacology, the professor explained the importance of dosage in treatment.
Synonyms
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The study of how medicines affect the body
An informal name for the study of drugs and how they affect living things
A study of medicines, what they are like, and how to prepare and use them
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
pharmacology = pharmaco + logy
Although the word is built from the classical root 'pharmaco' and the suffix '-logy', its meaning is not readily recoverable for average learners.
Etymology
Pharmacology comes from the Greek word pharmakon, which meant 'medicine' or sometimes 'poison', and the ending -logy, which means 'the study of', and you can see the same root in pharmacy. So pharmacology is the study of drugs and medicines, which shows why it looks at how medicines work and their effects on the body.