PHARMACOLOGIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pharmacologic mean? 

• PHARMACOLOGIC (adjective)
  The adjective PHARMACOLOGIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to pharmacology

  Familiarity information: PHARMACOLOGIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHARMACOLOGIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to pharmacology

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

pharmacologic; pharmacological

Pertainym:

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

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

Leakage of a pharmacologic or a biological substance from the infusion site into the surrounding tissue.

(Infusion Site Extravasation, NCI Thesaurus)

The time it takes for a substance to lose half of its pharmacologic, physiologic, or radiologic activity.

(Half Life, NCI Thesaurus)

A pharmacologic substance that does not directly kill cells, but instead affects cellular transport and metabolic functions to ultimately produce cell death.

(Non-cytotoxic Agent, NCI Thesaurus)

Pharmacologic inactivation of PI3K or mTOR/FRAP results in suppression of S6K resulting in activation of CTCF and suppression of MYC.

(CTCF Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Reduction of pharmacologic activity or toxicity of a drug or other foreign substance by a living system, usually by enzymatic action.

(Detoxification, NCI Thesaurus)

A group of neurologic disorders caused by damage to the nervous system following exposure to pharmacologic, biologic, and chemical agents.

(Neurotoxicity Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

This class does not include any individual substance derived from plants/animals or other organisms with specific pharmacologic activity (See Drug, Natural Product).

(Natural Product, NCI Thesaurus)

Any natural, endogenously-derived, synthetic or semi-synthetic compound with pharmacologic activity.

(Pharmacologic Substance, NCI Thesaurus)

The reason that changes were made to the specific pharmacologic therapy under study.

(Action Taken with Pharmacological Treatment, NCI Thesaurus)

According to the researchers, there are no pharmacologic agents with such profound effects on such a broad range of cardiometabolic risk factors.

(Moderate calorie restriction in young and middle-aged adults significantly reduces heart and metabolic risk factors independent of weight loss, National Institutes of Health)