Terminologies in Introduction to Pharmacology

Question 1

This was the science of drugs and how they interact with living things, including their physical, chemical, and biochemical effects.

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PHARMACOLOGY

Question 2

This was the study of drugs in humans with the patient and healthy volunteers as the sole subjects

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CLINICAL PHARMACOLGY

Question 3

A chemicals that can affect the living process and human process in either a positive or negative effect

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DRUGS

Question 4

The use of medication to treat, diagnose or prevent disease

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PHARMACOTHERAPEUTICS

Question 5

Properties of an ideal drugs that elicit the response from which it is given.

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EFFECTIVENESS

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A property of an ideal drug that subside within the appropriate time

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REVERSABLE ACTION

Question 7

A property of an ideal drug that gives us a certainty to know how a given patient will respond

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PREDICTABILITY

Question 8

This was the scientific name that came from chemical structure of drugs

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CHEMICAL NAME

Question 9

This was universally accepted name and not owned by any company

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GENERIC NAME

Question 10

This was chosen by the drug company and registered it as their trademark

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TRADE/BRAND NAME

Question 11

This was the transmission process of the drug from how where it was given to where it was in the bloodstream.

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ABSOPRTION

Question 12

This was the study of drug movement and how the body interact to drugs for the entire duration of exposure

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PHARMACOKINETICS

Question 13

This was the phenomenon where the drug metabolize and reduce the amount of active drug being exert to a pharmacological effect

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FIRST PASS EFFECT

Question 14

This was the percentage of drugs available to administered for the activity

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BIOAVAILABILITY

Question 15

This was the process by which bodily fluids transported the medication to the sites of action.

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DISTRIBUTION

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This was the action of enzymes that turn the medication into less active or rather a inactive form

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METABOLISM

Question 17

This was a Pharmacologic substance that is formerly a compound and was change through the Metabolism

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PRODRUG

Question 18

It indicate the time of amount of drug inside the body to be reduced by half

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HALFTIME

Question 19

This was the study of the effects of drugs in human body that acts to mimic the actions of the body own chemical messenger

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PHARMACODYNAMICS

Question 20

This was the activity of the drugs in terms of the concentration required to produce a defined effect

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POTENCY