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<pharmacology> The study of the biochemical and physiological effects of drugs and the mechanisms of their actions, including the correlation of actions and effects of drugs with their chemical structure, also, such effects on the actions of a particular drug or drugs. Contrast with pharmacokinetics.
Origin: Gr. Dynamis = power
(11 Mar 2008)
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