please tell me if there isa the difference between pharmacy and pharmacology.
73 Views|Posted 2011-06-29 20:26:36
Asked by Sumedha Bhat
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2011-06-29 20:34:27
Hi sumedha,Im a pharmacology student and
everytime I tell someone I study
pharmacology they ask me 'so is
that like pharmacy or what?'
A pharmacologist studies what a
drug does to a body and also
what the body does to a drug.
A pharmacist will deal with the
end products of a
pharmaceutical insudtry

Answered by
2011-06-29 20:57:18
Simply, pharmacy - study of medicine and pharmacology - study of any changes, reaction or response to that chemical in a living organism (what happens when you inject it).
In short, Pharmacology is the study of drug interaction in living organisms. Learning how a drug interacts in the human body, f
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