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Chemical Actions and Uses
Medical Definition: | A group of pharmacologic activities, effects on living systems and the environment, and modes of employment of drugs and chemicals. They are broken into actions, which describe their effects, and uses, which describe how they are employed. |
Guide Notes: | not used for indexing CATALOG: do not use |
Pharmacologic Actions - A broad category of chemical actions and uses that result in the prevention, treatment, cure or diagnosis of disease. Included here are drugs and chemicals that act by altering normal body functions, such as the REPRODUCTIVE CONTROL AGENTS and ANESTHETICS. Effects of chemicals on the environment are also included. | |
Specialty Uses of Chemicals - Uses of chemicals in a research, industrial, or household setting. This does not include PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIONS. | |
Toxic Actions - A broad category of chemical actions with harmful or deadly effect on living organisms. |
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