pharmacogenetics

1. 1.

   the branch of genetics that studies the genetically determined variations in responses to drugs in humans or laboratory organisms

   Broadergenetics

Other forms of pharmacogenetics

plural

pharmacogeneticses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pharmacogenetics

What does pharmacogenetics mean?

pharmacogenetics means "the branch of genetics that studies the genetically determined variations in responses to drugs in humans or laboratory organisms".

How many syllables are in pharmacogenetics?

pharmacogenetics has 6 syllables: phar-ma-co-ge-ne-tics. The stress falls on "ge".

Is pharmacogenetics a common word?

pharmacogenetics is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.