TERMINOLOGIES IN INTRODUCTION TO PHARMACOLOGY Flashcards
Pharmacotherapeutics
The use of pharmacological expertise and illness understanding for the prevention, mitigation, or treatment of a disease.
PRN (Pro Re Nata)
Needed immediately or in simple terms, “as needed.”
Pharmacodynamics
studies the effects of the taken drugs in the body.
Approximate development of a drug
10-15 years.
ORAL MEDICATION
A medication route that had to be taken from the word itself, “oral” or in simple terms, to be consumed by mouth and ingested.
PARENTERAL ADMINISRATION
A medication route that involves the use of medical needle that administered through injection into blood through veins, or body tissues.
Over the counter Drugs
Drugs that are available to buy even without the prescription of the doctor.
q3h (quaque 3 hora)
Every Three hours
Pharmacokinetics
refers to the study of the absorption and movement of the drug throughout the body.
ADME
Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion
Pharmacology
It is the study of the effects of the drugs in the body.
Distribution
The transport or way of the taken drugs to distribute its effect to the site of action through body fluids.
Biotransformation
Also called metabolism where the process of enzymes towards the medication/chemical occur.
Excretion
Removal of drugs in the body by means of urinal, sweat or through saliva.
Therapeutic Index
it is the range of the drug between being toxic drug and an effective drug.
