Terminologies in Introduction to Pharmacology Flashcards
What is Pharmacology?
Study of the effects of drugs and chemicals on living organisms where a drug can be broadly defined as any chemical substance, natural or synthetic, which affects a biological system.
What is Clinical Pharmacology?
Study of drugs in human for patients and healthy volunteers.
What is Pharmacotherapeutics?
Study of the use of drugs in diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases.
What are properties of an ideal drug?
- Effectiveness
- Safety
- Selectivity
- Reversible Action
- Predictability
- Ease of Administration
What are the 10 Rights we need to remember in preparing and administering a drug?
- Right patient
- Right route
- Right time
- Right drug
- Right dose
- Right documentation
- Right education
- Right to refuse
- Right assessment
- Right evaluation
It describes the drug’s chemical structure
(Drug Names)
Chemical Name
It is official, nonpropietrary name, not owned by any company and universally accepted
(Drug Names)
Generic Name
It has proprietary name, chosen by the drug company and registered as a trademark
(Drug Names)
Trade/Brand Name
It is a study of the drug’s journey to the body
Phramacokinetics
What is First Pass effect?
It is where the drugs metabolize by the liver to reduce the amount of active drug.
It is the study of the effects of drugs on the body.
Pharmacodynamics
What is Receptor Theory?
It is also known as “lock and key”. It quanties drug effects and define what biological systems can and cannot do.
It is a medication that can mimic the receptor activity regulated by endogenous compounds
(Receptors)
Agonist
It is a medication that can block normal receptor activity regulated by endogenous compound
(Receptors)
Antangonist
It is limited affinity to receptor sites
(Receptors)
Partial Agonist
