DDS QUIZ 2 Intro to frugs and pharmacy Flashcards
Food, Drug, Cosmetic Act?
1938
An agent intended for use in the diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, cure, or prevention of diseas in humans or in other animals?
Drugs
Means to slow down the effect
Mitigation
Diverse action and effects in the body
Drugs
Selective use in the treatment of a range of common and rare condition involving body organ, tissue, and cell
Drug
What are the important uses of drugs?
Reduce pain and fever
Combat infection
Organ transplant rejection
Diagnose diabetes
Replenish a body deficient in antibodies
Dilate the pupil of the eye?
Mydriatic
Constrict or diminish pupillary size?
Miotics
Induces vomiting
Emetics
Prevents vomiting
Antiemetics
Increase the flow of urine?
Diuretic
Increase respiratory tract fluid
Expectorant
Evacuate the bowel (to defecate)?
Cathartics or Laxative
To reduce inflammation
Anti-inflammatory
To reduce fever
Antipyretic
For pain management
Analgesic
Attacked a cancerous process?
Antineoplastic
What are the other use of drugs?
Elevate mood, blood pressure
Can be used to treat common infections, benign hyperplasia, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and male impotence
Other uses of drugs
Can assist smoking cessation or alcohol withdrawal or can modify obsessive or compulsive disorders.
Drugs
Can prevent pregnancy, assist fertility, and sustain life itself.
Drugs
What are the source of Drugs
Derived from plant or animal resources
By products of microbial growth
Through chemical synthesis
Molecular modification
Biotechnology
Plant source such as Lagundi and Sambong?
Plant or animal resources
Is the original structure of the drug that is chemically synthesized?
Through chemical synthesis