pharmacology lecture 1

Question 1

the written direction for the preparation and the administration of
the drug

Answer 1

Prescription

Question 2

The desired results of administration of a
medication

Answer 2

Effects (therapeutic effect)

Question 3

the attempt to cure, improve, diagnose, treat and/or prevent
disease/ condition in humans or animals

Answer 3

Therapeutic use

Question 4

The amount of a drug to be administered at one time

Answer 4

Dose

Question 5

The reasons for administering a medication or performing a
treatment

Answer 5

Indications

Question 6

Factor that prevents the use of a medication or
treatment (e.g., Allergies)

Answer 6

Contra-indications

Question 7

Effects that are harmful and undesired,
and that occur in addition to the desired therapeutic effects

Answer 7

Side Effects (adverse effects

Question 8

deleterious effect of the drug on an organism or tissue,
result from overdose or external use.

Answer 8

Drug toxicity

Question 9

Is the improper use of common medications in way that
lead to acute and chronic toxicity for example laxative, antacid and
vitamins.

Answer 9

Drug misuse

Question 10

Dealing with poisons,
their actions, their
detection, and the
treatment of
conditions produced by
them

Answer 10

Toxicology

Question 11

The proper selection of a drug
to treat a particular disease state.
considering
dose,
. duration of therapy,
side effects of drug

Answer 11

Pharmaco-therapeutics

Question 12

THE STUDY of the
interrelationships between
drugs and heredity (genes

Answer 12

Pharmaco-genetics

Question 13

THE STUDY of the
inter relationships
between drugs and
aging,

Answer 13

geriatric
pharmacology

Question 14

THE STUDY of the
relationship between drugs
and the immune system

Answer 14

Immuno-
pharmacology

Question 15

is a chemical substance of known structure,
when administered to a living organism, produces a biological effect

Answer 15

pharmacology, a drug

Question 16

also called a medication or medicine, is a
chemical substance used to treat, cure, prevent, or diagnose a
disease or to promote well-being

Answer 16

A pharmaceutical drug

Question 17

the study of substances that interact with
living systems through chemical processes and activating or
inhibiting normal body processes

Answer 17

Pharmacology

Question 18

study of drugs in humans

Answer 18

Clinical Pharmacology

Question 19

use of drugs to diagnose, prevent and treat
illness

Answer 19

Therapeutic

Question 20

any substance that brings about a change in
biologic function through its chemical action

Answer 20

Drug