pharmacochemistry
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phar·ma·ceu·ti·cal chem·is·try
medicinal chemistry in its application to the analysis, development, preparation, and the manufacture of drugs.
Synonym(s): medicinal chemistry, pharmacochemistry
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medicinal chemistry
The discipline involved in discovering and developing new chemical compounds into useful medicines; the analysis, development, preparation, and manufacture of drugs.Medicinal chemistry begins after biologically validated targets have been screened against a diverse library of compounds and promising initial chemical structures (known as hits) have been identified; the hits are then optimised to improve their therapeutic index—potency vs. toxicity.
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pharmacochemistry
(făr″mă-kō-kĕm′ĭs-trē) [″ + chemeia, chemistry]Pharmaceutical chemistry.
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