pharmacology lecture 1 Flashcards
the written direction for the preparation and the administration of
the drug
Prescription
The desired results of administration of a
medication
Effects (therapeutic effect)
the attempt to cure, improve, diagnose, treat and/or prevent
disease/ condition in humans or animals
Therapeutic use
The amount of a drug to be administered at one time
Dose
The reasons for administering a medication or performing a
treatment
Indications
Factor that prevents the use of a medication or
treatment (e.g., Allergies)
Contra-indications
Effects that are harmful and undesired,
and that occur in addition to the desired therapeutic effects
Side Effects (adverse effects
deleterious effect of the drug on an organism or tissue,
result from overdose or external use.
Drug toxicity
Is the improper use of common medications in way that
lead to acute and chronic toxicity for example laxative, antacid and
vitamins.
Drug misuse
Dealing with poisons,
their actions, their
detection, and the
treatment of
conditions produced by
them
Toxicology
The proper selection of a drug
to treat a particular disease state.
considering
dose,
. duration of therapy,
side effects of drug
Pharmaco-therapeutics
THE STUDY of the
interrelationships between
drugs and heredity (genes
Pharmaco-genetics
THE STUDY of the
inter relationships
between drugs and
aging,
geriatric
pharmacology
THE STUDY of the
relationship between drugs
and the immune system
Immuno-
pharmacology
is a chemical substance of known structure,
when administered to a living organism, produces a biological effect
pharmacology, a drug
also called a medication or medicine, is a
chemical substance used to treat, cure, prevent, or diagnose a
disease or to promote well-being
A pharmaceutical drug
the study of substances that interact with
living systems through chemical processes and activating or
inhibiting normal body processes
Pharmacology
study of drugs in humans
Clinical Pharmacology
use of drugs to diagnose, prevent and treat
illness
Therapeutic
any substance that brings about a change in
biologic function through its chemical action
Drug
