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noun

pharmacology

the science or study of drugs: their preparation and properties and uses and effects

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Six example sentences with pharmacology, each labelled with its topic.

  • Second year students take pharmacology before any ward work, since dosing errors are the mistake hospitals fear most.

    Medicine

  • Her pharmacology lab tests how a compound behaves in liver cells long before anyone considers a human trial.

    Science

  • A pharmacology briefing at the club explained which cold remedies are banned before competition and which are perfectly fine.

    Fitness

  • Before modern pharmacology, doctors prescribed remedies by tradition, and nobody could say how much of an extract was too much.

    History

  • Her pharmacology module explains how antidepressants act on the brain, which changes how she talks about them in therapy.

    Psychology

  • The company's pharmacology division tests thousands of compounds a year, and fewer than five reach a patient.

    Business

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