Principles of Pharmacology - Part 3

Question 1

Drugs that alter or modulate normal physiologic functions

Answer 1

Functional Modifiers

Question 2

They are supplement endogenous substances that are lacking or deficient in the body

Answer 2

Replenishers

Question 3

What are the examples of replenishers

Answer 3

Hormones
IV Fluids/Electrolytes/ORS
Multivitamins

Question 4

They are used to determine the presence or absences of a condition/disease

Answer 4

Diagnostic Agents

Question 5

Edrophonium (Tensilon) is a diagnostic agent that is used to identify ____________

Answer 5

Myasthenia gravis

Question 6

(T/F) Stress test is a electrocardiographic test

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Medical term for fever

Answer 7

Pyrexia

Question 8

Group of drugs that is used to kill or inhibit the growth of cells considered foreign to the body

Answer 8

Chemotherapeutics

Question 9

It is a principle used in chemotherapeutics that states that the property of certain chemicals to kill only one type of organism while not harming another

Answer 9

Principle of Selective Toxicity

Question 10

What the body does to the drug

Answer 10

Pharmacokinetics

Question 11

Ladmer: The drug’s uptake from administration to systematic circulation

Answer 11

Absroption

Question 12

Ladmer: The drug’s movement to various sites entering systematic circulation

Answer 12

Distribution

Question 13

Ladmer: The drug’s conversion to metabolites

Answer 13

Metabolism

Question 14

Ladmer: The drug’s removal from the body

Answer 14

Excretion