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Properties (medicine)
Properties (pronunciation: /ˈprɒpərtiːz/) in the context of medicine, refers to the inherent qualities or features that characterize a substance, object, or concept, especially in relation to its potential or actual effects on the human body or its processes.
Etymology
The term 'properties' is derived from the Latin 'proprietat-', meaning 'quality or property', from 'proprius', meaning 'one's own'.
Related Terms
- Pharmacodynamics: The study of the biochemical and physiological effects of drugs on the body or on microorganisms or parasites within or on the body and the mechanisms of drug action and the relationship between drug concentration and effect.
- Pharmacokinetics: The process by which a drug is absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.
- Bioavailability: The degree and rate at which a substance (such as a drug) is absorbed into a living system or is made available at the site of physiological activity.
- Efficacy: The ability of a drug to produce a therapeutic effect.
- Potency: The measure of drug activity expressed in terms of the amount required to produce an effect of given intensity.
- Toxicity: The degree to which a substance can harm humans or animals.
- Therapeutic Index: The ratio of the dose of a drug that causes a lethal or toxic effect to the dose that causes a therapeutic effect.
- Pharmacogenomics: The study of how genes affect a person's response to drugs.
- Pharmacovigilance: The science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects or any other drug-related problem.
- Pharmacotherapy: The treatment of disease through the administration of drugs.
- Pharmacology: The branch of medicine concerned with the uses, effects, and modes of action of drugs.
- Pharmaceutics: The discipline of pharmacy that deals with the process of turning a new chemical entity (NCE) or old drugs into a medication to be used safely and effectively by patients.
- Pharmacy: The science or practice of the preparation and dispensing of medicinal drugs.
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Properties
- Wikipedia's article - Properties
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