Terminologies in Introduction to Pharmacology Flashcards
Study of drugs in human for patients and healthy volunteers
CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
The use of drugs to diagnose, prevent or treat disease
PHARMACOTHERAPEUTICS
Any chemical that can affect living processes
DRUG
Study of drugs and their interaction with living things which encompasses the physical, and chemical properties, biochemical and physiologic effects
PHARMACOLOGY
A drug that we can know with certainty how a given patient will respond
PREDICTABILITY
A drug that elicits only the response for which it is given
SELECTIVITY
A drug that cannot produce harmful effects even if administered in very high doses and for a very long time
SAFETY
A drug that elicits the responses for which it is given
EFFECTIVENESS
A drug actions that subside within an appropriate time
REVERSIBLE ACTION
A drug that is given conveniently with low needed doses
EASE OF ADMINISTRATION
Treated as independent persons capable of making decisions in their own best interests, right to self-determination
RESPECT FOR PERSONS/ AUTONOMY
Requires that the selection of research subjects be fair
JUSTICE
Duty to protect research subjects from harm
BENEFICENCE
Enteral route of administration pass from the intestinal lumen to the liver via the portal vein
FIRST PASS EFFECT
Transportation of medications to sites of action by bodily fluids.
DISTRIBUTION
