pharmacology

English

Etymology

pharmaco- +‎ -logy

Pronunciation

enPR: fär'mə-kŏl'əjē, IPA^(key): /ˌfɑɹməˈkɒləd͡ʒi/
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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.

Synonyms

(science of drugs): materia medica (archaic or historical)

Meronyms

(science of drugs): pharmacognosy

Derived terms

Related terms

pharmacy

Translations

science that studies the effects of chemical compounds on living animals

Afrikaans: farmakologie (af)
Albanian: farmakologji f
Arabic: عِلْم اَلصَّيْدَلَة m (ʕilm aṣ-ṣaydala)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Asturian: farmacoloxía f
Azerbaijani: farmakologiya
Belarusian: фармакало́гія f (farmakalóhija)
Bulgarian: фармакология (bg) f (farmakologija)
Catalan: farmacologia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 藥理學／药理学 (zh) (yàolǐxué); 藥材／药材 (zh) (yàocái)
Czech: farmakologie (cs) f
Danish: farmakologi c
Dutch: farmacologie (nl) f
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), farmakológia (hu)
Icelandic: lyfjafræði
Indonesian: farmakologi (id)
Irish: míochaine f
Italian: farmacologia (it) f
Japanese: 薬理学 (ja) (やくりがく, yakurigaku)
Korean: 약리학(藥理學) (ko) (yangnihak)
Latvian: farmakoloģija f
Lithuanian: farmakologija f
Maori: mātai taka rongoā
Norwegian:
Bokmål: farmakologi m

Nynorsk: farmakologi m
Pashto: درملپوهنه (ps) f (dərməlpohəna)
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 (sk)
Slovene: farmakologíja f
Spanish: farmacología (es) f
Swedish: farmakologi (sv) c
Turkish: farmakoloji (tr), eczabilim, ilaç bilimi
Ukrainian: фармаколо́гія f (farmakolóhija)
Vietnamese: dược lý học (藥理學), dược học (vi)

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