posology

Dec. 16th, 2010 07:18 am
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posology (puh-SOL-uh-jee) - n., the branch of pharmacology dealing with the determination of appropriate dosage.


Which is, after all, as important as finding what to dose with. Borrowed around 1810 from French posologie, coined from Greek roots pósos, how much (itself from the PIE root *kwo, an interrogative that's behind what and who) + -logy.

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