Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of pharmacology that deals with drugs in their crude or natural state and with medicinal herbs or other plants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pharmacognostics .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Pharmacognosis.
- noun The study of the distribution of, methods for finding, and properties of medically useful agents in natural sources, especially plants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The branch of
pharmacology that studies medical substances that are extracted from natural sources, including drugs derived from plants and herbs used for medicinal purposes. - noun The branch of pharmacology dealing with recognizing the natural substances that have medicinal uses.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There are at least 7.5 credit hours in a total of two Botanical Medicine courses where my field of natural products (called pharmacognosy) is at least somewhat represented.
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Dr Paul Long, senior lecturer in pharmacognosy at King's College London, who is one of the authors, said: 'We were surprised at the lack of evidence to support the current oral penicillins dosing recommendations for children, as it is such a commonly used drug.
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Thus, I owe my lifelong interest in herbal medicine to the courses I took in pharmacognosy.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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Against this backdrop, I reluctantly registered for the required course in pharmacognosy, the study of drugs derived from plants.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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Against this backdrop, I reluctantly registered for the required course in pharmacognosy, the study of drugs derived from plants.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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Indeed, not long after I graduated, pharmacognosy was dropped from the list of required courses by many pharmacy schools.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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Thus, I owe my lifelong interest in herbal medicine to the courses I took in pharmacognosy.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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Indeed, not long after I graduated, pharmacognosy was dropped from the list of required courses by many pharmacy schools.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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As Purdue University pharmacognosy professor Varro Tyler warns, "A product like this can get contaminated and, combined with other fungi, produce toxic products."
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Against this backdrop, I reluctantly registered for the required course in pharmacognosy, the study of drugs derived from plants.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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