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pharmacognosy

[ fahr-muh-kog-nuh-see ]

pharmacognosy

/ ˌfɑːməkɒɡˈnɒstɪk; ˌfɑːməˈkɒɡnəsɪ /

noun

  1. the branch of pharmacology concerned with crude drugs of plant and animal origin
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • pharmacognostic, adjective
  • ˌ󲹰ˈDzԴDz, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • 󲹰m·Dzn· noun
  • 󲹰··Dz·ԴDz·پ [fahr-m, uh, -kog-, nos, -tik], adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of pharmacognosy1

First recorded in 1835–45; pharmaco- + -gnos(is) + -y 3
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of pharmacognosy1

C19: from pharmaco- + gnosy, from Greek gnosis knowledge
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Example Sentences

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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."

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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.

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I am a professor emeritus who chaired the pharmacognosy department at Ole Miss for 15 years before retiring.

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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.

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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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