Pharmaceutical Terminology - T thru Z

Question 1

T.I.D.

Answer 1

“Three times a day”

Question 2

Target

Answer 2

A specific protein or enzyme upon which a drug acts.

Question 3

Teratogenicity

Answer 3

The ability to cause abnormal development or malfunction of the fetus.

Question 4

Tertiary Care

Answer 4

Highly specialized medical and surgical care for unusual or complex medical problems provided by a large medical center.

Question 5

Therapeutic Area

Answer 5

A clinical discipline.

Question 6

Therapeutic Category

Answer 6

A system of grouping drugs by common therapeutic indication.

Question 7

Therapeutic Class

Answer 7

Drugs that share both an indication and a method of operation.

Question 8

Therapeutic Concentration

Answer 8

Defines the necessary concentration of a medication in blood or tissue to achieve the desired affect.

Question 9

Therapeutic Equivalents

Answer 9

Two drugs that are roughly interchangeable in safety and efficacy when used at roughly the same dose to treat the same health problem.

Question 10

Therapeutic Index

Answer 10

Measure used to determine the safety of a medication.

Question 11

Therapeutic

Answer 11

Treatment and healing of disease.

Question 12

Tissue

Answer 12

Section of an organ that consists of a largely homogeneous population of cell types.

Question 13

Titration

Answer 13

The manipulation of the dose of a medication based on the response by a patient, until the desired effect is achieved.

Question 14

TM

Answer 14

Traditional medicine.

Question 15

TNF

Answer 15

Tumor Necrosis Factor

Question 16

Tolerance

Answer 16

Increase in the body’s resistance to the effects of a drug, leading to the need for higher doses to produce the same benefits.

Question 17

Toxicity

Answer 17

The degree to which a drug or other substance is poisonous to and animal or person.

Question 18

Toxicology

Answer 18

Division of medical and biological science concerned with the study of harmful effects of various substances, including drugs.

Question 19

Transcription

Answer 19

The process of transfer of genetic information from DNA to RNA.

Question 20

tRNA

Answer 20

Transfer RNA.

Question 21

Tx

Answer 21

Shorthand for treatment.

Question 22

Utilization Review

Answer 22

Evaluation by a health plan or healthcare institution of the cost of efficacy of care decisions made by a group of physicians.

Question 23

V

Answer 23

Vomiting.

Question 24

Vaccine

Answer 24

A biologic that the immune system recognizes as a disease causing agent.

Question 25

Validated Target

Answer 25

A drug target that has been proven to have an effect on human health. Therefore, interventions affecting that target have therapeutic potential.

Question 26

Validation

Answer 26

Documentary proof offered by a drug manufacturer to the FDA that its manufacturing processes will produce the same drug product batch to batch and year to year.

Question 27

Vector

Answer 27

A carrier.

Question 28

Virus

Answer 28

Minute infectious agents (much smaller than bacteria).

Question 29

White Blood Cell

Answer 29

A type of blood cell that helps the body fight infection and disease.

Question 30

WHO

Answer 30

World Health Organization

Question 31

Wholesalers

Answer 31

Entities that purchase drugs from pharmaceutical companies and then resell and deliver them to pharmacies.

Question 32

WTO

Answer 32

World Trade Organization

Question 33

Xenotransplanation

Answer 33

Transplantation of cells, tissues, or organs from non-human animal sources into humans.

Question 34

Z

Answer 34

Zollinger-Ellison syndrome