Class: Drug

A drug is a chemical substance that contains one or more active ingredients that regulate one or more biological processes.

URI: sio:Drug

Parents

• is_a: ChemicalSubstance - A chemical substance is a chemical entity composed of two or more weakly (non-covalently) interacting chemical entities.

Children

• PharmaceuticalDrug - A pharmaceutical preparation is a chemical substance that is approved for use in the medical diagnosis, cure, treatment, or prevention of disease.
• Poison - A poison is a drug that is harzardous or toxic to an organism when ingested at a certain quantity.

Referenced by Class

Attributes

Inherited from ChemicalSubstance:

• hasCreator _0..1
  • Description: has creator is a relation between an entity and that which created it.
  • Range: Entity

• hasAttribute _0..1

  • Description: has attribute is a relation that associates a entity with an attribute where an attribute is an intrinsic characteristic such as a quality, capability, disposition, function, or is an externally derived attribute determined from some descriptor (e.g. a quantity, position, label/identifier) either directly or indirectly through generalization of entities of the same type.

  • Range: Entity

  • satisfies _0..1

  • Description: satisfies is a relation between an entity and the specification or objective that it conforms to.

  • Range: Description

  • isRelatedTo _0..1
  • Description: A is related to B iff there is some relation between A and B.
  • Range: Entity
  • derivesInto _0..1

  • Description: a derives to b if and only if a or some part thereof is consumed in the formation of b.

  • Range: Object