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Pharmacy
1) The science and practice of the preparation and dispensing of medicinal drugs. 2) A store where medicinal drugs are dispensed and sold.
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Dose–response relationship
Health care; Pharmacy
An exposure–disease association in which the risk of developing a disease varies with respect to the intensity or duration of exposure.
Clinical trial
Health care; Pharmacy
An experimental study that is designed to compare the therapeutic benefits of two or more treatments.
Blind study
Health care; Pharmacy
An experimental study in which subjects do not know the treatment they are receiving; investigators may also be blind to the treatment subjects are receiving; see also double-blind trial.
Concurrent controls
Health care; Pharmacy
Control subjects assigned to a placebo or control condition during the same period that an experimental treatment or procedure is being evaluated.
Exposure
Health care; Pharmacy
Contact with or possession of a characteristic that is suspected to influence the risk of developing a particular disease.
