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Basic Drug Concepts - ALL NOTES Flashcards

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What is a drug?

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-Chemical substances used to diagnose, treat or prevent disease or are intended to affect the structure or a function of the body

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What is a medicine ?

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-Delivery systems for administering drugs to the body in a safe, effective, accurate, reproducible and convenient manner

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What is biopharmaceutics?

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-The study of how the physicochemical properties of the drug and medicine combine with physiological aspects of the delivery route to determine rate and extent of absorption

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What is formulation of medicines?

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-The act of designing and producing a medicine from first principles

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What is pre-formulation?

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-Everything that needs to happen first with a new drug candidate

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