PHARMACY TERMINOLOGY Flashcards
ADSORPTION
VERY THIN LAYER (MOSTLY GAS) ON THE SURFACE
ACUTE
UNPLEASANT SITUATION PRESENT SEVERAL TIMES/DEGREE
ANALGESIC
A.A. STOPS PAIN, PAINKILLER
ANGINA PECTORIS
A CONDITION THAT CAUSES STRONG CHEST PAIN (HEART ORIGINATED)
ANTIARRHYTMIC
A.A. REGULATES THE HEART BEATS TO THEIR NORMAL RHYTHM
ANTICOAGULENT
A.A. PREVENTS/SLOWS DOWN THE BLOOD FORMING A CLOT (PIHTI)
ANTICOLIC
A.A. USED AGAINST GASTROINTESTINAL (GI) SYSTEM PAIN
ANTIDIARRHERICA
A.A PREVENT/TREATS DIARRHEA
ANTIEMETIC
A.A PREVENTS VOMITING
ANTIINFLAMMATORY
A.A REDUCE PAIN AND SWELLING
ANTIHELMINTIC
EXPELLING/DESTROYING PARASITIC WORMS (ESPECIALLY OF THE INTESTINE)
ANTIHEMORRHAGIC
A.A PREVENTS BLEEDING
ANTIHISTAMINIC
A.A TREATING ALLERGIC REACTIONS
ANTICHOLINERGIC
OPPOSING/BLOCKING THE PHYSIOLOGIC ACTION OF ACETYLCHOLINE (REDUCING GASTRIC SECRETION, PREVENTING CONTRACTION -KASILMA-)
ANTIPYRETIC
A.A PREVENT/REDUCE PAIN
ANTIRHEUNATIC
A.A ALLEVIATING/PREVENTING RHEUMATISM -ROMATİZMA-
BUCCAL
RELATING TO THE INSIDE OF THE MOUTH, ESP. THE CHEEK
BRONCHODILATOR
A.A RELAXES BRONCHIAL MUSCLE RESULTING IN EXPANSION OF THE BRONCHIAL AIR PASSAGES
TONUS
DEVAMLI KAS KASILMASI
CORRODE
AŞINDIRMAK
INTESTINE-BOWEL / COLON / FECES
BAĞIRSAK / KALIN BAĞIRSAK / DIŞKI
PURGED
ARINDIRILMIŞ
CARMINATIVE
A.A EXPELS GAS FROM THE STOMACH/INTESTINES SO AS TO RELIVE FLATULENCE/ABDOMINAL PAIN
INFLAMMATION
İLTİHAP
CARCINOMA
A CANCER ARISING IN THE EPITHELIAL TISSUE (SKIN, INTERNAL ORGANS)
CARCINOGEN
A.A CAPABLE OF CAUSING CANCER IN A LIVING TISSUE
CATHERTIC
A MEDICINE THAT CAUSES THE BOWELS TO BE PURGED
CAUSTIC
ABLE TO BURN/CORRODED ORGANIC TISSUE BY CHEMICAL ACTION
CYTOSTATIC
AGAINST CANCER, INHIBITING CELL GROWTH/DIVISION
COLITS
INFLAMMATION OF THE LINING OF THE COLON
DIARRHEA
İSHAL
DIAPHORETIC
A.A INDUCES PERSPIRATION-PROCESS OF SWEATING-
INDUCES
BAŞLATMAK
DILUTION
SEYRELTME
DYSPEPSIA
PAIN/UNCOMFORTABLE FEELING IN THE UPPER MIDDLE PART OF THE STOMACH AREA
EMBOLI
AN ABNORMAL PARTICLE (SUCH AS AIR BUBBLE IN A VESSEL)