The term pharmacology is derived from the Greek words pharmakon("claim, medicine, poison, or remedy") and logos ("study").
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Vampire bats have a natural anticoagulant in their saliva that permits continuous bleeding after they painlessly open a wound with their incisors. This capillary blood does not cause any significant blood loss to their victims.
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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
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About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
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Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
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