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  2. Potency (pharmacology) - Wikipedia

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    In pharmacology, potency or biological potency [1] is a measure of a drug's biological activity expressed in terms of the dose required to produce a pharmacological effect of given intensity. [2]

  3. List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions, including hospital orders (the patient-directed part of which is referred to as sig codes).This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as CD, CR, ER, XT (See Time release technology § List of abbreviations for those).

  4. The Top 100 Drugs - Wikipedia

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    The Top 100 Drugs: Clinical Pharmacology and Practical Prescribing is a pocket-size medical manual focusing on the most commonly prescribed medicines by the British National Health Service (NHS). It was first published by Churchill Livingstone , Elsevier , in 2014, revised in a second edition in 2018, and again in 2022 in a third edition.

  5. Equianalgesic - Wikipedia

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    An equianalgesic chart is a conversion chart that lists equivalent doses of analgesics (drugs used to relieve pain). Equianalgesic charts are used for calculation of an equivalent dose (a dose which would offer an equal amount of analgesia) between different analgesics. [1]

  6. List of benzodiazepines - Wikipedia

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    The tables below contain a sample list of benzodiazepines and benzodiazepine analogs that are commonly prescribed, with their basic pharmacological characteristics, such as half-life and equivalent doses to other benzodiazepines, also listed, along with their trade names and primary uses.

  7. Drug nomenclature - Wikipedia

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    Drug nomenclature is the systematic naming of drugs, especially pharmaceutical drugs.In the majority of circumstances, drugs have 3 types of names: chemical names, the most important of which is the IUPAC name; generic or nonproprietary names, the most important of which are international nonproprietary names (INNs); and trade names, which are brand names. [1]

  8. List of pharmacists - Wikipedia

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    O. Henry (1862–1910), American writer, real name William Sidney Porter; Colin Murdoch (1929–2008), New Zealand inventor (tranquilizer gun, disposable hypodermic syringe, child–proof medicine container) Edna O'Brien (born 1930), Irish author and playwright; John O'Grady, Australian writer They're a Weird Mob) [4]

  9. List of physicians - Wikipedia

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    Guy de Chauliac (1290–1368) — one of the first physicians to have an experimental approach towards medicine; also recorded the Black Death; Anna Manning Comfort (1845-1931) — first woman medical graduate to practice in the state of Connecticut; Loren Cordain (born 1950) — American nutritionist and exercise physiologist, Paleolithic diet