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Corpsman Manual Ch 18 Flashcards

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

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Pharmacognosy

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

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Pharmacology

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

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Pharmacy

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

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Posology

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

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Pharmacodynamics

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

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Pharmacotherapeutics

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

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Toxicology

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

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Therapeutics

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

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USP-NF

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

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USP- NF

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

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Remington: the Science and practice of pharmacy

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

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Dose

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

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150

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

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Age

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What is the most common method of administering medications?

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Oral

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

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Sublingual

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

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Buccal

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What medications are introduced by injection?

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Parenteral

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

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Subcutaneous

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

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Intradermal

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What is the medication introduced directly into the vein?

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Intravenous

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

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Nebulization

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

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6

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

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Medication

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

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Therapeutic

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

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Astringents

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

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Emollients

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

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Antitussives

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What reduce congestion and the swelling of mucous membranes?

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Nasal decongestants

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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?

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Histamine

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What are used to counteract hyperacidity in the stomach?

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Antacids

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

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2

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What suppress the growth of microorganisms?

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Antiseptics

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

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Disinfectants

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

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Phenol

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

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Sulfonamides

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

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Penicillin

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

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Cephalosporins

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

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1948

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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?

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Amino glycosides

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

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Macrolides

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

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Laxatives

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What are agents that increase the rate of urine formation?

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Diuretics

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

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Non-narcotic analgesics

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What relieve or reduce fevers?

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Antipyretics

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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?

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Barbiturates

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

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Psychotherapeutic

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

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Vasoconstrictors

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

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Vitamin C

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

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Oxytocics

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

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1980

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

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Metrology

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

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Metric system

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

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Ratio

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What is the expression of equality of two ratios?

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Proportion

55
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What are aromatic, sweetened hydroalcoholic solutions containing medicinal substances?

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Elixirs

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

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Suspensions

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

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Ointments

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

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Suppositories

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

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Capsules

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What is used for mixing and measuring various medicinal ingredients?

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Enrlenmeyer flask

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

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Graduates

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

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Therapeutic

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

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Physical

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

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Contraindication

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What is the most important tool used by the pharmacy

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Prescription

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

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NAVMED 6710/6

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

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Inscription

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

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Signa

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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?

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3

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

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2

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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?

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5

72
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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?

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7

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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

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6

74
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What substances are primarily antitussives or antidiarrheals?

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Schedule 5

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

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Quarterly

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