Definitions Flashcards
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Pharmacology
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- understanding how drugs are administered
- to where they travel in the body
- to how the actual responses are produced
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Therapeutics
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concerned with the prevention of disease and treatment of suffering
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Pharmacotherapeutics
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the application of drugs fo the purpose of treating disease
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Mechanism of Action
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The pharmacologic classification of drugs explains the mechanism of action, or how a drug produces its effect.
- It explains how the drug woorks at the molecular, tiissue and body system levels.
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Therapeutic Classification
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defines the drug;s usefulness in trating a particular disease or condition,
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Biologics
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agents are naturally produced by animals, microorganisms, or the human body
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