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Pharmacology - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Pharmacology : \Phar`ma*col"o*gy\, n. [Gr. fa`rmakon drug _ -logy:
cf. F. pharmacologie.]
1. Knowledge of drugs or medicines; the art of preparing
medicines.
2. A treatise on the art of preparing medicines.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Pharmacology : Pharmacology: The study of drugs, their sources, their nature, and their properties. Pharmacology is the study of the body's reaction to drugs. It emerged as a major area in American medicine
largely due to the efforts of John Jacob Abel (1857- 1938) who stressed the importance of chemistry in medicine, did research on the endocrine glands, first isolated epinephrine (adrenaline),
crystallized insulin (1926), and became the first pharmacology professor in the U.S.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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