pharmacology

English

Etymology

pharmaco- +‎ -logy

Pronunciation

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

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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.

Synonyms

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

Meronyms

• (science of drugs): pharmacognosy

Derived terms

Derived terms

• cytopharmacology
• pharmacologic
• pharmacological
• pharmacologically
• pharmacologist
• phytopharmacology

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)