Terminologies in Introduction to Pharmacology

Question 1

Pharmacology

Answer 1

study of drugs and how they affect living beings, including their physical, chemical, biological, and physiologic impacts.

Question 2

Clinical Pharmacology

Answer 2

human drug testing in healthy volunteers and patients

Question 3

Pharmacotherapeutics

Answer 3

the application of medication to detect, prevent, or treat disease

Question 4

Drug

Answer 4

any substance that can impact biological processes

Question 5

Chemical Name

Answer 5

outlines the chemical composition of the medication

Question 6

Generic Name

Answer 6

official, nonproprietary, not a trademark of any corporation, and widely used

Question 7

Brand/Trade Name

Answer 7

proprietary name selected by the pharmaceutical firm and trademarked

Question 8

Agonist

Answer 8

Drug that binds a receptor and produces a biochemical response

Question 9

Antaginist

Answer 9

Binds the receptor but doesn’t produce a biochemical response “ it’s a blank” No second messenger is produced

Question 10

Pharmacokinetics

Answer 10

investigation on how drugs pass through the body

Question 11

Bioavailability

Answer 11

refers to the proportion of a medicine that has been supplied that is still active.

Question 12

Distribution

Answer 12

body fluids transporting drug to places of action.

Question 13

Biotransformation

Answer 13

via the activity of enzymes, convert medicines into a less active or inactive form.

Question 14

Excretion

Question 15

Pharmacodynamics

Answer 15

investigation on how medicines affect the body

Question 16

Partial Agonist

Answer 16

insufficient affinities for receptor sites

Question 17

Idiosyncratic Effect

Answer 17

rare drug response associated with hereditary predisposition

Question 18

Paradoxical effect

Answer 18

the reverse of the desired medication effect

Question 19

Toxicity

Answer 19

extent of negative effects brought on by high drug dosage

Question 20

Prodrug

Answer 20

material that undergoes pharmacologic metabolism to become a substance