Category: Basic Definitions

An official code containing a selected list of the established drugs andmedical preparations with descriptions of their physical properties and tests for their identity, purity and potency e.g. Indian Pharmacopoeia (I.P), British Pharmacopoeia (B.P).

It’s the effect of drugs upon microorganisms, parasites and neoplasticcells living and multiplying in living organisms.

It’s the science of poisons. Many drugs in larger doses may act as poisons.Poisons are substances that cause harmful, dangerous or fatal symptoms in livingsubstances.

It deals with the proper selection and use of drugs for theprevention and treatment of disease.

It is the science of identification, selection, preservation, standardisation,compounding and dispensing of medical substances.

Drugs are chemicals that alter functions of living organisms. Drugs are generallygiven for the diagnosis, prevention, control or cure of disease.

It evaluate the pharmacological action of drug preferred routeof administration and safe dosage range in human by clinical trails.

Pharmacology is a branch of medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences concerned with drug or medication action, where a drug may be defined as any artificial, natural, or endogenous molecule which exerts a biochemical or physiological effect on the cell, tissue, organ, or organism.  Pharmacology is the study of how a medicine works, how the body responds…