How to Use pharmacology in a Sentence

pharmacology

noun
Definition of pharmacologynext
  • We don't have a complete understanding of the new drug's pharmacology yet.
  • With advances in pharmacology, the time had come for an agency to inform the public about the differences between medicine and snake oil.
    — Thomas R. Insel, STAT, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Another plaintiff is a researcher in pharmacology in Ohio who was born in Syria and has lived in the United States since 2001.
    — Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The research has also helped miniaturize size and reduce the cost of lasers used for medicine, pharmacology and defense.
    — Jane Kim, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2022
  • News story: Amazon was casting around for another part of the world to take over, took a look at the pharmacology industry and said: Hey, why not?
    — James Lileks, Star Tribune, 29 Nov. 2020
  • And the school no longer is offering its pharmacology course online.
    — Josh Verges, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2019
  • But what’s worse is that a lot of the guys who weren’t preoccupied with recreational pharmacology or killing themselves were busy elsewhere.
    — Bryan Box, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2021
  • OxyContin is one of the most addictive painkillers in the history of pharmacology.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Further, 21 picograms would have zero pharmacology in a horse.
    — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 16 May 2021
  • And in pharmacology, the trend was actually downward, from 33% to 29%.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 9 June 2020
  • These results suggest to us that treating depression through pharmacology is not so much about improving mood, but rather as helping to cope with change.
    — Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, 9 Apr. 2018
  • And some experts say the scare has less to do with pharmacology than with consumer distrust, poor communication, and media pressure.
    — Yves Sciama, Science | AAAS, 27 Sep. 2017
  • David Hosack’s garden may have been short-lived, but in our parks, gardens, medical practices and pharmacology, his efforts continue to bear fruit.
    — Marta McDowell, New York Times, 25 June 2018
  • Based on the many accounts vacationers described, any of those drugs seems to make sense, said Johnson, a specialist in behavioral pharmacology.
    — Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 July 2017
  • His father was a pharmacology professor whose uncle had been grand imam of Al Azhar, a 1,000-year-old university that is a center of Islamic learning.
    — Alan Cowell, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2022
  • As many companies don’t see a market for such therapeutic drug seems to have bred inertia in the pharmacology field, however.
    — William Haseltine, Quartz, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Taylor will be attending the University of New England in Maine to major in pharmacology.
    — David Buice, Dallas News, 2 July 2019
  • In the late Obama years, most everyone, but especially most evidence-minded liberals, had lost faith in the war on drugs, and Hart became the scientist who said that pharmacology was a weaker force than we’d been led to think.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The problem is kratom products that show up in the United States are unregulated and may be taken, either as a tea or an extract, at unsafe levels, said Prozialeck, a pharmacology professor.
    — Anne Geggis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 30 June 2017
  • Rocha says her daughter was enrolled in pharmacology school and would have graduated in September.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Her interest was in the sciences — first biology, then biochemistry and finally pharmacology, the study of how chemicals act on the human body.
    — Nancy Kriplen, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2017
  • David Juurlink, an internist and the head of the division of clinical pharmacology at the University of Toronto, raised other concerns about the use of dexamethasone: its side effects.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 4 Oct. 2020
  • But for every grapefruit evangelist, there is a critic warning of its dangers—probably one with a background in pharmacology.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Drug Monkey, of the Seed Science Blogs, took the opportunity to nerd out about the pharmacology of insomnia and anxiety medication.
    — Aaron Rowe, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2008
  • Indermill left the University of Colorado an essay short of a degree in pharmacology.
    — Lola Sherman Seaside Musings, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 May 2017
  • Before his appointment to dean, Dr. Taylor spent three years as interim dean and had been pharmacology department chairman since 1992.
    — Washington Post, 23 July 2019
  • The logistics of delivery are as critical as the pharmacology.
    — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 23 Nov. 2020
  • One day in pharmacology class, his professor gave a presentation about cancer drugs.
    — Lucette Lagnado, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2017
  • At first the health minister, Agnès Buzyn, seemed to accept the case that patients who pop sugar pills might cut down on antibiotics and other pharmacology, which the French notoriously overconsume.
    — The Economist, 18 July 2019
  • Andrea Gore, a UT professor of pharmacology and toxicology, said during the council’s Monday meeting that educators need to take a stand to protect their academic freedom before policymakers try to censor other topics.
    — Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2022

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