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Ancient Greek φάρμᾰκον (phármăkon)der.

English pharmaco-

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.

Latin -logialbor.

French -logiebor.

English -logy

English pharmacology

From pharmaco- + -logy.

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

pharmacology (uncountable)

2. The science of drugs, including their origin, composition, pharmacokinetics, therapeutic use, and toxicology.
   1. The properties and reactions of a given drug, especially with relation to its therapeutic value.

Synonyms

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

Meronyms

• (science of drugs): pharmacognosy

Derived terms

• biopharmacology
• chronopharmacology
• cytopharmacology
• ethnopharmacology
• genopharmacology
• immunopharmacology
• micropharmacology
• nanopharmacology
• neuropharmacology
• oncopharmacology
• pharmacologic
• pharmacological
• pharmacologically
• pharmacologist
• photopharmacology
• phytopharmacology
• polypharmacology
• psychopharmacology
• radiopharmacology
• toxicopharmacology
• zoopharmacology

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)

• 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
• Malay: farmakologi
• Māori: 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
• Thai: เภสัชศาสตร์ (pee-sàt-chá-sàat)
• Turkish: farmakoloji (tr), eczabilim, ilaç bilimi
• Ukrainian: фармаколо́гія f (farmakolóhija)
• Vietnamese: dược lý học (藥理學), dược học (vi)