El farmacogenético
Example: El farmacogenético estudia cómo los genes afectan la respuesta a medicamentos.
Definition
"El farmacogenético" refers to a specialist in the field of pharmacogenetics, a branch of medicine that studies how an individual's genetic makeup influences their response to drugs, aiming to personalize and optimize medication treatments for better efficacy and safety.
Etymology
The term "el farmacogenético" combines 'farmaco-' from the Greek 'pharmakon,' meaning drug or medicine, and 'genético,' derived from the Greek 'genetikos,' meaning genetic or hereditary. This reflects the field's focus on genetics in relation to drug response.
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"El farmacogenético" appears in the Vocaplus list "Spanish - Medical Professions - (C1) - set 1", containing 105 commonly used words.
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