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polypharmacology

polypharmacology noun: the presence of multiple pharmacologies (targets, modes of action etc) in a single drug.

Noun

polypharmacology (plural polypharmacologies)

  1. The presence of multiple pharmacologies (targets, modes of action etc) in a single drug
    • While several classes of kinase inhibitors are highly selective (MEK, covalent modifying kinase inhibitors) many possess a vast polypharmacology across the kinome target-scape.2015 July 16, “Novel Phenotypic Outcomes Identified for a Public Collection of Approved Drugs from a Publicly Accessible Panel of Assays”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of polypharmacology

pluralpolypharmacologies

Origin of polypharmacology

From poly- + pharmacology.

Questions about polypharmacology

What does polypharmacology mean?
Polypharmacology means the presence of multiple pharmacologies (targets, modes of action etc) in a single drug.
What part of speech is polypharmacology?
Polypharmacology is a noun.
What is the plural of polypharmacology?
The plural of polypharmacology is polypharmacologies.

Words near polypharmacology in the dictionary

  1. polypharmacist
  2. polypharmacists
  3. polypharmacological
  4. polypharmacologically
  5. polypharmacologies
  6. polypharmacology
  7. polypharmacotherapy
  8. polypharmacy
  9. polypharyngeal
  10. polyphasal
  11. polyphase

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