pharmacology

English

Etymology

pharmaco- +‎ -logy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌfɑɹməˈkɒlədʒi/

Noun

pharmacology (uncountable)

1. (medicine) The science of drugs including their origin, composition, pharmacokinetics, therapeutic use, and toxicology.
2. (medicine) The properties and reactions of drugs especially with relation to their therapeutic value.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• cytopharmacology
• pharmacologic
• pharmacological

• pharmacologically
• pharmacologist

Related terms

• pharmacy

Translations

science that studies the effects of chemical compounds on living animals

• Albanian: farmakologji f
• Arabic: عِلْم اَلصَّيْدَلَة m (ʕilm aṣ-ṣaydala)
• Asturian: farmacoloxía f
• Azerbaijani: farmakologiya
• Bulgarian: фармакология (bg) f (farmakologija)
• Catalan: farmacologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藥理學／药理学 (zh) (yàolǐxué), 药理学 (zh) (yàolǐxué)

• Czech: farmakologie f
• Dutch: farmacologie (nl)
• 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)
• Icelandic: lyfjafræði
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• 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 f
• Maori: mātai taka rongoā
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: farmakologi m

  Nynorsk: farmakologi m

• Pashto: درملپوهنه (ps) f (dërmëlpohëna)
• 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
• Turkish: farmakoloji (tr)
• Vietnamese: dược lý học (藥理學), dược học (vi)