Terminologies in Introduction to Pharmacology Flashcards
What substances used in prevention,
disease treatment, and diagnosis?
Medicinal Drugs
These substances utilised for
purposes of recreation. These drugs include illegal substances.
cannabis, heroin, and cocaine, for example
as well as commonplace substances like caffeine and nicotine
as well as alcohol.
Nonmedicinal (Social) Drugs
_____________ is the study of the actions, mechanisms, uses
and adverse effects of drugs.
Pharmacology
A ______ is any natural or synthetic substance that alters consciousness.
a living organism’s physiological state. Drugs can be harmful it is also
separated into two groups
Drug
It activate receptors and cause a reaction.
response.
Agonists
It associate with receptors without activating them. By successfully weakening or eliminating the receptors from the system, _________ decrease the likelihood that transmitters or agonists will attach to the receptor and counteract their activity.
Antagonists
This kind of drug that are administered where they are required, providing
the benefit that they don’t have to go through any obstacles,
membranes. This denotes a higher drug concentration.
less medicine is absorbed into the systemic circulations and less chance of unintended side effects in the target tissue
adverse consequences. Skin ointments, ear, nose, and eye drops are among examples. Inhaled aerosols and drops are used to treat asthma.
Topical/ Topical Drug
It describes how the body reacts to the medicine. The time period that the medicine has been active in the body is determined by quantitative assessments of drug absorption, distribution in the body, and excretion.
Pharmacokinetics
The capacity of a substance to produce a desirable result.
Efficacy
The capacity of a substance to produce a desirable result.
Efficacy
It is the unwanted effect include side effects from mediation, but other unpleasant effects might arise during a medication study that are not necessarily connected to the medicine.
Adverse Effect
It might be because of pharmacokinetic interactions, such as when one medicine inhibits or stimulates the enzyme that metabolizes another, or because the transport protein that transports the drugs is saturated.
Drug Interaction
What are the 2 branches of pharmacology?
Pharmacokinetics & Pharmacodynamics
It focuses on the molecular, biochemical, and physiological impacts of pharmaceuticals, as well as drug mechanism of action In the simplest terms, it is what the medicine does to the body.
Pharmacodynamics
This describes the drug’s specific chemical composition and identifies the arrangement and position of atoms or atomic groups. A chemical name, for example, 1-Cyclopropyl-6-fluoro-4-oxo-7-(piperazin-1-yl)-1,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylic acid Hydrochloride, appears weird to anyone who is not a chemist and is difficult for most people to pronounce.
Chemical Name
