How to Use pharmacology in a Sentence

pharmacology

noun
  • We don't have a complete understanding of the new drug's pharmacology yet.
  • And the school no longer is offering its pharmacology course online.
    — Josh Verges, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The research has also helped miniaturize size and reduce the cost of lasers used for medicine, pharmacology and defense.
    — Jane Kim, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Further, 21 picograms would have zero pharmacology in a horse.
    — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 16 May 2021
  • With advances in pharmacology, the time had come for an agency to inform the public about the differences between medicine and snake oil.
    — Thomas R. Insel, STAT, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Gardening with bare hands can be both a hobby, and for a developing brain, pharmacology.
    — John La Puma, Oc Register, 26 Mar. 2026
  • But what’s worse is that a lot of the guys who weren’t preoccupied with recreational pharmacology or killing themselves were busy elsewhere.
    — Bryan Box, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2021
  • These results suggest to us that treating depression through pharmacology is not so much about improving mood, but rather as helping to cope with change.
    — Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, 9 Apr. 2018
  • One day in pharmacology class, his professor gave a presentation about cancer drugs.
    — Lucette Lagnado, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Police discovered an unmarked pill bottle in his vehicle, yet declined to do a pharmacology test.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2022
  • And some experts say the scare has less to do with pharmacology than with consumer distrust, poor communication, and media pressure.
    — Yves Sciama, Science | AAAS, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Future doctors at some medical schools are learning more than anatomy, pathology and pharmacology these days.
    — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
  • OxyContin is one of the most addictive painkillers in the history of pharmacology.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 13 Mar. 2018
  • As many companies don’t see a market for such therapeutic drug seems to have bred inertia in the pharmacology field, however.
    — William Haseltine, Quartz, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Rocha says her daughter was enrolled in pharmacology school and would have graduated in September.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Driven by expectation, context and social cues rather than pharmacology, the placebo effect is often dismissed as all in the mind.
    — Phil Starks, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2026
  • But for every grapefruit evangelist, there is a critic warning of its dangers—probably one with a background in pharmacology.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Then, a pharmacology section, with animal studies showing that the drug didn’t have any toxic effects, and that it could safely be taken for a long period of time.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The logistics of delivery are as critical as the pharmacology.
    — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 23 Nov. 2020
  • What Brooks proffers is not the philosophy these queries require but a kind of pharmacology—a pill designed to alleviate every last pang.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • David Hosack’s garden may have been short-lived, but in our parks, gardens, medical practices and pharmacology, his efforts continue to bear fruit.
    — Marta McDowell, New York Times, 25 June 2018
  • And in pharmacology, the trend was actually downward, from 33% to 29%.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 9 June 2020
  • The fact that most marijuana users consume the drug to get intoxicated is a product of social history, not pharmacology.
    — Mark A. R. Kleiman, Foreign Affairs, 28 June 2018
  • Based on the many accounts vacationers described, any of those drugs seems to make sense, said Johnson, a specialist in behavioral pharmacology.
    — Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 July 2017
  • Her interest was in the sciences — first biology, then biochemistry and finally pharmacology, the study of how chemicals act on the human body.
    — Nancy Kriplen, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2017
  • His parents encouraged him to study pharmacology, but his resistance to dissecting a frog in one of his science classes, combined with undiagnosed dyslexia, led him to drop out.
    — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Indermill left the University of Colorado an essay short of a degree in pharmacology.
    — Lola Sherman Seaside Musings, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 May 2017
  • Read more from her on medical libertarianism, powerful podcast bros, folk pharmacology, and more.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Taylor will be attending the University of New England in Maine to major in pharmacology.
    — David Buice, Dallas News, 2 July 2019
  • Another plaintiff is a researcher in pharmacology in Ohio who was born in Syria and has lived in the United States since 2001.
    — Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2017

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