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BIOSIS UEF Authority File (BIAF)
Accession number & update
00126 MAJOR CONCEPTS 19981204.
Descriptors
Pharmacology.
Broader term(s)
Major-Concept-Terms.
Narrower term(s)
Pharmaceuticals;
Pharmacognosy.
Additional notes
The development or use of drugs for the
diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of
disease in animals and humans. Includes
drug design, testing and clinical trials,
drug pharmacokinetics, and
pharmacodynamics studies.
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RT
Index-term
E3 549806 9
PHARMACOLOGY
Expand on E3 and the following
will display:
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Type RT Index-term
R1 553222 9
PHARMACOLOGY
R2 The development or use of drugs for the
diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of disease in
animals and humans
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R8 0
B
80 MAJOR CONCEPT TERMS
R9 39327
N
4
PHARMACEUTICALS
R10 22343
N
8
PHARMACOGNOSY
Major Concepts (0)
Major Concept Terms (0)
·
·
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Pharmacology (52540)
Pharmaceuticals (2912)
Pharmacognosy (2812)
View the scope note for
"Pharmacology" and the following
displays:
Scope Note for: Pharmacology
The development or use of drugs for
the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment
of disease in animals and humans.
Includes drug design, testing and
clinical trials, drug pharmacokinetics,
and pharmacodynamics studies.
Example:
TERM DETAIL FOR: Pharmacology
SCOPE NOTE: The development
or use of drugs for the diagnosis,
prevention, or treatment of disease
in animals and humans includes
drug design, testing, and clinical
trials, drug pharmacokinetics, and
pharmacodynamics studies.
More specific (narrower) terms:
Pharmaceuticals
Pharmacognosy
More general (broader) terms:
Major Concept Terms
E1 0
BT2
Major Concepts/CT
E2 0
BT1
Major Concept Terms/CT
E3 598522-->
Pharmacology/CT
NOTE: The development or use of
drugs for the diagnosis, prevention, or
treatment of disease in animals and
humans. Includes drug design, testing
and clinical trials, drug
pharmacokinetics, and
pharmacodynamics studies.
E4 3135 NT1
Pharmaceuticals/CT
E5 71585 NT1
Pharmacognosy/CT
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development)
Locate terms using the .DE. field
You will normally only retrieve one
record. Displaying this will show
Broader terms (BT), Narrower terms
(NT), Related terms (RT) and scope notes
(NO)
Use this to select appropriate controlled
terminology and use those terms in the
appropriate fields of the BIOL database
Search example:
pharmacology.DE.
To view the scope notes of a known
authority file term, EXPAND the term in
parentheses for direct access:
Remember that the display only shows
the next level of narrower terms and
exploding includes only those terms
displayed
E (pharmacology)
Use the Tools option, enter a term and
select the tool you wish to use (tree,
permuted index, scope note, or
explode).
Once you are in the authority file (via
the tree tool), you can:
- search an individual heading within a
tree
- explode a broader term in the tree
which searches all branches
(subheadings)
- view scope notes
Use the "THESAURUS" option to type a
term in the subject line. From the next
screen you have several options:
Selecting the subject term you searched
for will allow you to see its scope note,
broader and narrower terms.
Explode Checked Subjects - to search
for the term and all of its narrower terms
Search checked subjects - to search just
for the selected term(s)
Index - to go to the permuted list of
indexed terms and view/select
another term of terms to be searched
To view a term, its scope notes,
narrower and broader terms, EXPAND
the term+all/CT
E pharmacology+all/CT
