pharmacology

1. 1.

   the science or study of drugs: their preparation and properties and uses and effects

   Synonymspharmacological medicinemateria medica

   Broadermedicine

   Narrowerpharmacokineticsposologypsychopharmacologytoxicology

Other forms of pharmacology

plural

pharmacologies·

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 pharmacology

What does pharmacology mean?

pharmacology means "the science or study of drugs: their preparation and properties and uses and effects".

How many syllables are in pharmacology?

pharmacology has 5 syllables: phar-ma-co-lo-gy. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˌfɑɹməˈkɑlədʒi/.

What is another word for pharmacology?

Close synonyms include pharmacological medicine, materia medica. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pharmacology a common word?

pharmacology is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with pharmacology?

6 words rhyme with pharmacology. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.