pharmacology

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From pharmaco- + -logy.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˌfɑrməˈkɒlədʒi/

Noun

pharmacology (uncountable)

1. (medicine) The science that studies the effects of chemical compounds on living animals, especially the science of the manufacture, use and effects of medicinal drugs.
2. The medicinal characteristics of a specific drug.

Derived terms

• pharmacologic
• pharmacological
• pharmacologically
• pharmacologist

Related terms

• pharmacy

Translations

science that studies the effects of chemical compounds on living animals

• Albanian: farmakologji (sq) f
• Arabic: علم الصيدلة (ar) (3ilm al-Saydala) m
• Azeri: farmakologiya (az)
• Bulgarian: фармакология (bg) (farmakologija) f
• Catalan: farmacologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藥理學 (cmn), 药理学 (cmn) (yàolǐxué)

• Czech: farmakologie (cs) f
• Dutch: farmacologie (nl)
• Esperanto: farmakologio (eo)
• Finnish: farmakologia (fi)
• French: pharmacologie (fr) f
• Georgian: ფარმაკოლოგია (ka) (p'armakologia)
• German: Pharmakologie (de) f
• Greek: φαρμακολογία (el) (farmakoloyia) f
• Hebrew: פרמקולוגיה (he) (farmakologya) f
• Hungarian: gyógyszerhatástan (hu)

• Icelandic: lyfjafræði (is)
• Italian: farmacologia (it) f
• Japanese: 薬理学 (ja) (やくりがく, yakurigaku)
• Korean: 약리학 (ko) (yaklihak) (藥理學 (ko))
• Lithuanian: farmakologija (lt) f
• Persian: فارماکولوژی (fa) (fârmâkoloži), داروشناسی (fa)
• Polish: farmakologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: farmacologia (pt) f
• Romanian: farmacologie (ro) f
• Russian: фармакология (ru) (farmakológija) f
• Serbo-Croatian: фармаколо̀гија (sh) f, farmakològija (sh) f
• Slovak: farmakológia (sk)
• Slovene: farmakologíja (sl) f
• Spanish: farmacología (es) f
• Turkish: farmakoloji (tr)
• Vietnamese: dược lý học (vi) (藥理學 (vi))