Corpsman Manual Ch 18

Question 0

What is the branch of pharmacology dealing with biological, biochemical, and economic features of natural medications and their constituents?

Answer 0

Pharmacognosy

Question 1

What is the science dealing with the origin, nature, chemistry, effects, and uses of medications?

Answer 1

Pharmacology

Question 2

What is the branch of pharmacology dealing with the preparation, dispensing, and proper use of medications?

Answer 2

Pharmacy

Question 3

What is the study of the dosages of medicine and medications?

Answer 3

Posology

Question 4

What is the study of the action or effects of medications on living organisms?

Answer 4

Pharmacodynamics

Question 5

What is the study of the uses of medications in the treatment of disease?

Answer 5

Pharmacotherapeutics

Question 6

What is the study of poisons, their actions, their detection, and the treatment of the conditions produced by them?

Answer 6

Toxicology

Question 7

What is the science of treating disease by any method that will relieve pain, treat or cure diseases and infections, or prolong life?

Answer 7

Therapeutics

Question 8

What provides tests for medication identity, quality, strength, and purity?

Answer 8

USP-NF

Question 9

The US Federal Food, Medication, and Cosmetics Act designates the what as the official reference for medications marketed in the United States?

Answer 9

USP- NF

Question 10

What is the most widely used to text/ reference in American pharmacies?

Answer 10

Remington: the Science and practice of pharmacy

Question 11

The amount of medication to be administered is referred to as the what?

Answer 11

Dose

Question 12

A therapeutic dose is calculated on an average adult male of 24 years who weighs approximately how many pounds?

Answer 12

150

Question 13

What is the most common factor that influences the amount of medication to be given?

Answer 13

Age

Question 14

What is the most common method of administering medications?

Answer 14

Oral

Question 15

What medications are administered by placing the medication under the tongue?

Answer 15

Sublingual

Question 16

What medications are administered by placing the medication between the cheek and gum?

Answer 16

Buccal

Question 17

What medications are introduced by injection?

Answer 17

Parenteral

Question 18

What is the medication injected just below the skin’s cutaneous layers?

Answer 18

Subcutaneous

Question 19

What is the medication injected within the dermis layer of the skin?

Answer 19

Intradermal

Question 20

What is the medication introduced directly into the vein?

Answer 20

Intravenous

Question 21

What is the process by which a medication is converted into a fine spray by the use of compressed gas?

Answer 21

Nebulization

Question 22

To prevent medication errors, there are how many important steps to follow when administering medication to a patient?

Answer 22

6

Question 23

What is any chemical substance that has an effect on living tissue but is not used as a food?

Answer 23

Medication

Question 24

Medications are classified according to set criteria and fall into three specific areas: general, chemical, and what else?

Answer 24

Therapeutic

Question 25

What are medications that cause shrinkage of the skin and mucous membranes?

Answer 25

Astringents

Question 26

What are bland or fatty substances that may be applied to the skin to make it more pliable and soft?

Answer 26

Emollients

Question 27

What are agents that inhibit or suppress the act of coughing?

Answer 27

Antitussives

Question 28

What reduce congestion and the swelling of mucous membranes?

Answer 28

Nasal decongestants

Question 29

What substance released by most cells distributed in connective tissues usually near blood vessels, promotes some of the reactions associated with inflammation and allergies, such as asthma and hay fever?

Answer 29

Histamine

Question 30

What are used to counteract hyperacidity in the stomach?

Answer 30

Antacids

Question 31

Oral medications normally should not be taken within how many hours of taking an antacid?

Answer 31

2

Question 32

What suppress the growth of microorganisms?

Answer 32

Antiseptics

Question 33

What are agents used to disinfect inanimate objects and are primarily germicidal in their action?

Answer 33

Disinfectants

Question 34

What is the standard by which all other antiseptic, disinfectant, and germicidal agents are measured in effectiveness?

Answer 34

Phenol

Question 35

What were the first effective chemo therapeutic agents to be available in safe therapeutic dosage ranges?

Answer 35

Sulfonamides

Question 36

What is one of the most effective and least toxic of the antimocrobial agents?

Answer 36

Penicillin

Question 37

What are a group of semi-synthetic derivatives of cephalosporin C, an antimocrobial agent of fungal origin?

Answer 37

Cephalosporins

Question 38

Tetracyclines introduced in what year, were the first truly broad spectrum antibiotics?

Answer 38

1948

Question 39

What are a group of medications that share chemical, antimicrobial, pharmacologic and toxic characteristics, and that are effective against most gram- positive and gram negative organisms?

Answer 39

Amino glycosides

Question 40

Antibiotics constituting a large group of bacteriostatic agents that inhibit protein synthesis are known as what

Answer 40

Macrolides

Question 41

What are medications that facilitate the passage and elimination of feces from the colon and rectum?

Answer 41

Laxatives

Question 42

What are agents that increase the rate of urine formation?

Answer 42

Diuretics

Question 43

What are medications that relieve pain without producing unconsciousness or impairing mental capacities?

Answer 43

Non-narcotic analgesics

Question 44

What relieve or reduce fevers?

Answer 44

Antipyretics

Question 45

What are used mainly as sedative-hypnotics, anticonvulsants, an esthetics, for short anesthesia, and may be used in combination with analgesics to enhance their analgesic effect?

Answer 45

Barbiturates

Question 46

Tranquilizers and mood modifiers are the two primary groups of what agents?

Answer 46

Psychotherapeutic

Question 47

What produce constriction of the blood vessels with consequent rise in blood pressure?

Answer 47

Vasoconstrictors

Question 48

What in high doses is believed to prevent the common cold, and to treat asthma, atherosclerosis, wounds, schizophrenia, and cancer?

Answer 48

Vitamin C

Question 49

What are medications that produce a rhythmic contraction of the uterus?

Answer 49

Oxytocics

Question 50

In what year did the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the global eradication of naturally occurring smallpox?

Answer 50

1980

Question 51

What which is called the arithmetic of pharmacy, is the study and science of weights and measures?

Answer 51

Metrology

Question 52

What is the official system of weights and measures used by Navy Pharmacy Departments for weighing and calculating pharmaceutical preparations?

Answer 52

Metric system

Question 53

What is the relationship of one quantity to another quantity of like value?

Answer 53

Ratio

Question 54

What is the expression of equality of two ratios?

Answer 54

Proportion

Question 55

What are aromatic, sweetened hydroalcoholic solutions containing medicinal substances?

Answer 55

Elixirs

Question 56

What are coarse dispersions comprised of finely divided insoluble material suspended in a liquid medium?

Answer 56

Suspensions

Question 57

What are semisold, fatty, or oily preparations of medicinal substances?

Answer 57

Ointments

Question 58

What are solid bodies intended to introduce medicinal substances into various orifices of the body?

Answer 58

Suppositories

Question 59

What are gelatin shells containing solid or liquid medicinal substances to be taken orally?

Answer 59

Capsules

Question 60

What is used for mixing and measuring various medicinal ingredients?

Answer 60

Enrlenmeyer flask

Question 61

What are conical or cylindrical clear glass containers graduated in specified quantities and used to measure liquids volumetrically

Answer 61

Graduates

Question 62

What incompatibilities occur when agents antagonistic to one another are prescribed together

Answer 62

Therapeutic

Question 63

What incompatibilities are often called pharmaceutical incompatibilities and are evidenced by the failure of the medications to combine properly

Answer 63

Physical

Question 64

What is any condition which makes a particular treatment or procedure inadvisable

Answer 64

Contraindication

Question 65

What is the most important tool used by the pharmacy

Answer 65

Prescription

Question 66

Currently there are two standardized forms used for prescriptions: the DoD Prescription, DD Form 1289 and the polyprescription, what form?

Answer 66

NAVMED 6710/6

Question 67

What is that part of the prescription that lists the name and quantity of the medication to be used?

Answer 67

Inscription

Question 68

What is the part of the prescription that gives the directions for the patient?

Answer 68

Signa

Question 69

During the process of filling a prescription, the label on the containers used in filling the prescription should be verified at least how many times?

Answer 69

3

Question 70

Currently, prescriptions are required to be kept on file for at least how many years after the date of issue?

Answer 70

2

Question 71

The Controlled Substance Act of 1970 established how many schedules related to a medications potential for abuse, medical usefulness, and degree of dependency, if abused?

Answer 71

5

Question 72

Prescriptions for schedule 2 substances can never be ordered with refills and in most cases must be filled within how many days of the date originally written?

Answer 72

7

Question 73

Prescriptions must be filled within 30 days of the date written and may be refilled up to 5 times within how many months for schedule 3 substances

Answer 73

6

Question 74

What substances are primarily antitussives or antidiarrheals?

Answer 74

Schedule 5

Question 75

At least how often, or more frequently if necessary, the Controlled Substances Inventory Board (CSIB) takes an unannounced inventory of controlled substances

Answer 75

Quarterly