Pharmacology

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  • noun. The science of drugs, including their composition, uses, and effects.
  • noun. The characteristics or properties of a drug, especially those that make it medically effective.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The sum of scientific knowledge concerning drugs, including
  • noun. pharmacy, or the art of preparing drugs, and
  • noun. pharmacody-namics, what is known concerning their action.
  • noun. More specifically, same as pharmacodynamics.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Knowledge of drugs or medicines; the art of preparing medicines.
  • noun. A treatise on the art of preparing medicines.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The science that studies the effects of chemical compounds on living animals, especially the science of the manufacture, use and effects of medicinal drugs.
  • noun. The medicinal characteristics of a specific drug.
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  • noun. the science or study of drugs: their preparation and properties and uses and effects
    • Word Usage
    "While Le, who was pursuing a doctorate in pharmacology, conducted experiments on mice, Clark took care of the rodents and cleaned their cages."
    Hypernym
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    medical specialty  medicine  
    Hyponym
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    pharmacokinetics  posology  psychopharmacology  toxicology  
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    Same Context
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    biochemistry  criminology  embryology  ethnography  histology  
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    aerobiology  agrobiology  anatomy  astrobiology  bacteriology  
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