- pharmacology (n.)
- 1721, formed in Modern Latin (1680s) from pharmaco- + -logy. Related: Pharmacological.
- psychopharmacology (n.)
- also psycho-pharmacology, 1919, from psycho- + pharmacology. Related: Psychopharmacological.
- choleretic
- "Stimulating the secretion of bile by the liver; designating this action or effect", 1920s; earliest use found in Journal of Pharmacological and Experimental Therapeutics. From chole- + -retic, after German choleretisch and Cholereticum respectively, both ultimately after Cholerese amount of bile secreted by the liver in a specific time.