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pharmacognosy
[ fahr-muh-kog-nuh-see ]
pharmacognosy
/ ˌfɑːməkɒɡˈnɒstɪk; ˌfɑːməˈkɒɡnəsɪ /
noun
- the branch of pharmacology concerned with crude drugs of plant and animal origin
Derived Forms
- pharmacognostic, adjective
- ˌpharmaˈcognosist, noun
Other Words From
- pharma·cogno·sist noun
- phar·ma·cog·nos·tic [fahr-m, uh, -kog-, nos, -tik], adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of pharmacognosy1
Word History and Origins
Origin of pharmacognosy1
Example Sentences
A 2013 study in Pharmacognosy Reviews found that ambrein, a major ingredient in the Arab aphrodisiac Ambra grisea, "contains a tricyclic triterpene alcohol which increases the concentration of several anterior pituitary hormones and serum testosterone."
Li Shizhen’s “Compendium of Materia Medica,” or “Bencao gangmu,” first published in 1596, is a Chinese pharmacopoeia and the most celebrated book in the Chinese tradition of pharmacognosy, or the study of medicinal plants.
I am a professor emeritus who chaired the pharmacognosy department at Ole Miss for 15 years before retiring.
I clicked on researcher after researcher, ruling out one after another—one just because he didn’t list an e-mail or any contact information, another because she wrote articles filled with words I didn’t understand, words like pharmacognosy, methanolic, and eosin.
To dramatize a crusade which the State of Pennsylvania started last week against the hypnotic drug called marijuana,*Philadelphia's Temple University's professor of Pharmacognosy, James Clyde Munch, undertook to describe its effects to students.
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