pharmacognosy

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Etymology

From pharmaco +‎ -gnosy.[1]

Noun

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pharmacognosy (countable and uncountable, plural pharmacognosies)

  1. A branch of pharmacology that studies medical substances that are derived from natural sources, and their recognition.

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References

  1. ^ Satyajit D. Sarker (2012 April) “Pharmacognosy in modern pharmacy curricula”, in Pharmacogn Mag.