Technology, Industry, and Agriculture

Drug Industry

That segment of commercial enterprise devoted to the design, development, and manufacture of chemical products for use in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, disability, or other dysfunction, or to improve function.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

That segment of commercial enterprise devoted to the design, development, and manufacture of chemical products for use in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, disability, or other dysfunction, or to improve function.

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Synonyms

11 entry terms
  • Industries, Pharmaceutic
  • Industry, Drug
  • Industry, Pharmaceutic
  • Industry, Pharmaceutical
  • Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Drug Industries
  • Industries, Drug
  • Industries, Pharmaceutical
  • Pharmaceutic Industries
  • Pharmaceutic Industry
  • Pharmaceutical Industries

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12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

/instrum /methods: consider probably better TECHNOLOGY, PHARMACEUTICAL

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Drug Industry. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004345. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004345
  2. Drug Industry. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_industry
  3. Drug Industry. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q507443