pharmacology

pharmacology

English

Etymology

pharmaco- +‎ -logy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌfɑɹməˈkɒlədʒi/

Noun

pharmacology (uncountable)

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

• cytopharmacology
• pharmacologic
• pharmacological

• pharmacologically
• pharmacologist

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 Azerbaijani: 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 Maori: mātai taka rongoā 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 (sk) Slovene: farmakologíja f Spanish: farmacología (es) f Turkish: farmakoloji (tr) Vietnamese: dược lý học (藥理學), dược học (vi)