药理

藥理
yàolǐ
noun #33,661

Meanings

  1. 1 pharmacology
  2. 2 the principles of how drugs act in the body

Examples

Tā zài yīxuéyuàn jiāo yàolǐxué.
She teaches pharmacology at the medical school.
Zhè zhǒng yào de yàolǐ zuòyòng hái zài yánjiū zhōng.
The pharmacological effect of this drug is still under study.

Tips

usage
Most often appears in compounds: 药理学 (pharmacology, the academic discipline), 药理作用 (pharmacological effect / mechanism of action), 药理实验 (pharmacological experiment). 药理 alone is the abstract "how the drug works" — adding makes it the field.

Stroke Order

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