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  • toxicology the branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature and effects and treatments of poisons
  • pharmacological of or relating to pharmacology
  • tincture (pharmacology) a medicine consisting of an extract in an alcohol solution
  • formulary (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation
  • placebo effect any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs
  • thurifer an acolyte who carries a thurible
  • anacoluthic of or related to syntactic inconsistencies of the sort known as anacoluthons
  • otto loewi United States pharmacologist (born in Germany) who was the first to show that acetylcholine is produced at the junction between a parasympathetic nerve and a muscle (1873-1961)
  • congenital megacolon congenital condition in which the colon does not have the normal network of nerves; there is little urge to defecate so the feces accumulate and cause megacolon
  • psychopharmacological of or relating to psychopharmacology
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