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pharmacognosy
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pharmacognosy /phar·ma·cog·no·sy/ (fahr″mah-kog´nah-se) the branch of pharmacology dealing with natural drugs and their constituents.
phar·ma·cog·no·sy (färm-kgn-s)
n.
The branch of pharmacology that deals with drugs in their crude or natural state.

pharmacognosy,
the study of chemicals taken from natural sources to be used as drugs or in the preparation of drugs. Sources may include plants, animals, or other life forms such as fungi, molds, and yeasts.

pharmacognosy (färˈ·m·kägˑ·n·sē),
n the study of medicinal and/or pharmaceutical substances derived from natural sources such as plants, fungi, and animals.

pharmacognosy
the branch of pharmacology dealing with natural drugs and their constituents.

pharmacognosy
1 Herbal medicine, see there 2. The scientific approach to and formal study of the effects and uses of medicinal plants. See Herbal medicine, Pharmacognosist; Cf Traditional herbalism.


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