Pharmacology

Pharˊma-col′o-gy

,

Noun.

[Gr.

φάρμακον

drug +

-logy

: cf. F.

pharmacologie

.]

1.

The science dealing with knowledge of the preparation, use, and effects of drugs or medicines; the art of preparing medicines.

2.

A treatise on the art of preparing medicines.

Pharmacology

PHARMACOL'OGY

,

Noun.

[supra.] The science or knowledge of drugs, or the art of preparing medicines.

1.

A treatise on the art of preparing medicines.

pharmacology

English

Noun

pharmacology ‎(uncountable)

(medicine) The science of drugs including their origin, composition, pharmacokinetics, therapeutic use, and toxicology.
(medicine) The properties and reactions of drugs especially with relation to their therapeutic value.

Derived terms

Related terms

pharmacy

Translations

science that studies the effects of chemical compounds on living animals

Albanian: farmakologji f
Arabic: عِلْم اَلصَّيْدَلَة m ‎(ʿilm aṣ-ṣaydala)
Asturian: farmacoloxía f
Azeri: farmakologiya
Bulgarian: фармакология (bg) f ‎(farmakologija)
Catalan: farmacologia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 藥理學 (zh), 药理学 (zh) ‎(yàolǐxué)
Czech: farmakologie f
Dutch: farmacologie (nl)
Esperanto: farmakologio
Finnish: farmakologia (fi)
French: pharmacologie (fr) f
Galician: farmacoloxía (gl) f
Georgian: ფარმაკოლოგია ‎(parmaḳologia)
German: Pharmakologie (de) f
Greek: φαρμακολογία (el) f ‎(farmakología)
Hebrew: פרמקולוגיה (he) f ‎(farmakologya)
Hungarian: gyógyszerhatástan (hu)

Icelandic: lyfjafræði
Italian: farmacologia (it) f
Japanese: 薬理学 (ja) ‎(やくりがく, yakurigaku)
Korean: 약리학 (ko) ‎(yaklihak) (藥理學 (ko))
Lithuanian: farmakologija f
Norwegian:

Bokmål: farmakologi m

Nynorsk: farmakologi m
Pashto: درملپوهنه (ps) f ‎(dërmëlpohëna)
Persian: فارماکولوژی (fa) ‎(fârmâkoloži), داروشناسی (fa)
Polish: farmakologia (pl) f
Portuguese: farmacologia f
Romanian: farmacologie (ro) f
Russian: фармаколо́гия (ru) f ‎(farmakológija)
Serbo-Croatian: фармаколо̀гија f, farmakològija (sh) f
Slovak: farmakológia
Slovene: farmakologíja f
Spanish: farmacología (es) f
Turkish: farmakoloji (tr)
Vietnamese: dược lý học (藥理學)

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Pharmacology

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Pharmacology

PHARMACOL'OGY

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