pharmacology
noun
the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
pharmacologist
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a word derived from
pharmacology.
Example Sentences
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The research was led by clinical pharmacologist Hiddo Lambers Heerspink of the University Medical Center Groningen and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
A young Liza Minnelli was “nurse, doctor, pharmacologist, and psychiatrist” to her mother, Judy Garland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
"I'm not a pharmacologist, but none of those drugs strike me as drugs for which it is obvious that a risk of violence would ensue," said Justice Amy Coney Barrett, another conservative.
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
Things have worsened over the years, says Saraswati Datta Bodhak, a pharmacologist at a government hospital in West Bengal's Bankura district.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2024
Yet the Food and Drug Administration’s chief pharmacologist has declared the hazard of living in a house sprayed with chlordane to be “very great.”
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
