pharma transes source 21 pages Flashcards
Drugs
Chemicals that are introduced in the body to cause
some sort of change
Any chemical that affects the physiologic processes of a
living organism
Medicine
used in treating disease, control or cure a
condition
Pharmacology
study of drugs and their interactions with living
systems
- father of pharmacology
Oswald Schmiedeberg
Pharmaceutics
the study how various drugs form influence
pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic activities
Pharmacokinetics
The study of what the body does to the drug
In Greek kinesis or
movement
- first step in the process by which medication
enters the body and liberates the active ingredient that
has been administered.
Liberation
Pharmacodynamics
biochemical and physical effect of drug(s) and the
mechanism of drug action
Pharmacotherapeutics
The use of drugs and the clinical indications for drugs to
prevent and treat diseases
Pharmacotherapeutics
Empirical therapeutics
effective, but mechanism of
action is unknown
Pharmacotherapeutics
Rational therapeutics
specific evidence has been
obtained for the mechanisms of drug action
Posology
branch of medical science which deals with dose or
quantity of drugs
Pharmacogenetics
science and study of the inheritance of characteristic
patterns of interaction between chemicals (drugs) and
organisms
Chronopharmacology
study of how the effects of drugs vary with biological
timing and endogenous periodicities
Pharmacy
The science of identification, compounding and
dispensing of drugs
Toxicology
study of biologic toxins
study of poison, sources, tests, antidotes, and its
deleterious effects of physical and chemical agents
(including drugs) in human
Pharmacognosy
study of natural (plant and animal) drug sources
Earliest and most common drug source
Plants
most active component in plants
Alkaloids
most active component in plants
Alkaloids
