Today’s term is a twenty-letter word that many nursing students learn.
Term: pharmacotherapeutics
Definition: The study of the effects of drugs in a clinical setting.
The emphasis here is on the effects that a drug has, and accordingly, the drug’s proper uses.
A couple of somewhat similar-looking words have their own meanings of course. “Pharmacodynamics” refers to the study of the interaction of drugs with living tissue, and “pharmacokinetics” refers to the study of what happens to drugs in living organisms.
The more general term, “phamacology” can be defined as the study of the effects of drugs.
Coming on Saturday (1/16/10), “If I had a hammer…”
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