The term pharmacology is derived from the Greek words pharmakon("claim, medicine, poison, or remedy") and logos ("study").
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There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.
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The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
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Throughout history, plants containing cardiac steroids have been used as heart drugs and as poisons (e.g., in arrows used in combat), emetics, and diuretics.
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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that all women age 65 years of age or older should be screened with bone densitometry.
A juvenile blue whale with its mother
This modified model of Easton’s systems theory puts government decision makers as the source of pol