Pharmacology - Basics

Question 1

Pharmacology

Answer 1

Study of selective biologic activity of drugs

Question 2

Medical Pharmacology

Answer 2

area of pharmacology concerned with the use of chemicals in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, especially in humans.

Question 3

Drugs

Answer 3

Articles for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animals.

Question 4

Drug receptors

Answer 4

The molecular components of the body with which drugs interact to bring about their effects

Question 5

Nature of drugs

Answer 5

Drugs are chemicals that modify body functions. They may be ions, carbohydrates, lipids, or proteins.
They vary in size from lithium (MW 7) to proteins (MW 50,000)

Question 6

Pharmacodynamics

Answer 6

a branch of pharmacology that focuses on the study of biochemical & physiological effects of drugs & the
mechanisms by which they produce such effects.
” what the drug does to the body”

Question 7

Pharmacokinetics

Answer 7

quantitative measurement of drug absorption, distribution, and elimination (i.e., excretion and metabolism) and includes the rate processes for drug movement into the body, within the body, and out of the body.
”What the body does to the drug”

Question 8

Pharmacotherapeutics

Answer 8

Rational use of Dugs in the management of diseases

Question 9

Toxicology

Answer 9

Branch that deals w/ the undesirable effects of chemicals on living systems, from individual cells to complex ecosystems