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pharmacology|fɑːməˈkɒlədʒɪ|
[ad. mod.L. pharmacologia (W. Harris 1683): see pharmaco- and -logy.]
That branch of medical science which relates to drugs, their preparation, uses, and effects; the science or theory of pharmacy.
1721Bailey, Pharmacology, a Treatise concerning the Art of preparing Medicines. 1800Med. Jrnl. III. 576 This work..answers the requisites of a good practical Pharmacology. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 17 Pharmacology is the general term employed to embrace these three divisions [Pharmacy, Therapeutics, Materia Medica]. 1883Nature XXVII. 542/2 The knowledge of the action of remedies, or Pharmacology.
Hence ˌpharmacoˈlogical a., pertaining or relating to pharmacology (whence ˌpharmacoˈlogically adv.); ˌpharmacoˈlogic a. (chiefly U.S.) = pharmacological a.; pharmaˈcologist, a person versed in pharmacology.
1901T. Sollmann Text-bk. Pharmacol. 8 The organic poisons..often require *pharmacologic experience for their recognition. 1973Sci. Amer. Sept. 123/3 Psychiatry..has two faces, one represented by treatment at the psychosocial level and the other by treatment at the pharmacologic level.
1851–9Hooker in Man. Sci. Enq. 421 Upon *pharmacological subjects Lindley's Flora Medica..will be found valuable. 1873J. W. Legg in St. Barth. Hosp. Rep. IX. 163 Operations..done in the pharmacological laboratory.
1900Lancet 8 Dec. 1644/2 The aldehydes are *pharmacologically active.
a1728Woodward Fossils (J.), The osteocolla is recommended by the *pharmacologists as an absorbent and conglutinator of broken bones. 1881Huxley in Nature XXIV. 346/2 Sooner or later, the pharmacologist will supply the physician with the means of affecting, in any desired sense, the functions of any physiological element of the body. |