materia medica

English

Etymology

From Latin materia (“material”) + medica, from medicus (“medical”)

Noun

materia medica (uncountable)

1. (medicine) The study of the origin, preparation, dosage and administration of medical drugs. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• pharmacology

Translations

study of medical drugs

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藥材／药材 (zh) (yàocái), 药材 (zh) (yàocái)

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• Irish: míochaine f

Noun

1. (medicine) The substances so used.