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  2. Preformationism - Wikipedia

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    A homonculus inside a sperm cell, as drawn by Nicolaas Hartsoeker in 1695 Jan Swammerdam, Miraculum naturae sive uteri muliebris fabrica, 1729. In the history of biology, preformationism (or preformism) is a formerly popular theory that organisms develop from miniature versions of themselves.

  3. Pharmaceutical formulation - Wikipedia

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    Pharmaceutical formulation, in pharmaceutics, is the process in which different chemical substances, including the active drug, are combined to produce a final medicinal product. The word formulation is often used in a way that includes dosage form .

  4. Preformation - Wikipedia

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  5. Pharmaceutics - Wikipedia

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    Pharmaceutics is the discipline of pharmacy that deals with the process of turning a new chemical entity (NCE) or an existing drug into a medication to be used safely and effectively by patients. [1] The patients could be either humans or animals. Pharmaceutics helps relate the formulation of drugs to their delivery and disposition in the body. [2]

  6. Drug design - Wikipedia

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    The phrase "drug design" is similar to ligand design (i.e., design of a molecule that will bind tightly to its target). [6] Although design techniques for prediction of binding affinity are reasonably successful, there are many other properties, such as bioavailability, metabolic half-life, and side effects, that first must be optimized before a ligand can become a safe and effictive drug.

  7. History of pharmacy - Wikipedia

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    The history of pharmacy as a modern and independent science dates back to the first third of the 19th century. Before then, pharmacy evolved from antiquity as part of medicine . Before the advent of pharmacists, there existed apothecaries that worked alongside priests and physicians in regard to patient care.

  8. Pharmacy - Wikipedia

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    Pharmaceutics: the study and design of drug formulation for optimum delivery, stability, pharmacokinetics, and patient acceptance. [41] Pharmacognosy: the study of medicines derived from natural sources. [42] As new discoveries advance and extend the pharmaceutical sciences, subspecialties continue to be added to this list.

  9. Homunculus - Wikipedia

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    The concept has roots in preformationism as well as earlier folklore and alchemic traditions. The term lends its name to the cortical homunculus , an image of a person with the size of the body parts distorted to represent how much area of the cerebral cortex of the brain is devoted to it.