Of a medication or medical treatment: having mild rather than violent or powerful effects; not producing severe side effects. In later use: spec.…

Of a medicine: having the power of obstructing the pores, bowels, etc.

Designating a medicinal substance which is neither acid nor alkaline.

Destroying the periodicity of diseases that run a typical course.

Not strong or energetic in action; lacking in force or power. Of a dose of medicine: Less in quantity (and hence in power) than the normal dose.

Of a drug: producing stathmokinesis. Also: designating methods of studying or measuring the rate of cell division by the use of such a drug; of or…

That can be absorbed or utilized by living organisms (cf. bioavailability, n.).

Of a biopharmaceutical, esp. one produced by recombinant DNA technology: designed to have active properties similar to those of a previously…