TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Basic Principles of Pharmacology A1 - Ciccone, Charles D. PY - 2016 T2 - Pharmacology in Rehabilitation AB - Pharmacology is the study of drugs. In its broadest definition, a drug can be described as “any substance that, when taken into a living organism, may modify one or more of its functions.”1 In this sense, a drug includes any substance that alters physiological function in the organism, regardless of whether the effect is beneficial or harmful. In terms of clinical pharmacology, it has traditionally been the beneficial or therapeutic effects that have been of special interest. SN - PB - F. A. Davis Company CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - fadavisat.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1135034485 ER -