Terminologies in introduction to pharmacology Flashcards
A branch of science that studies medications and how they affect living organisms.
Pharmacology
It is concerned with the study of drugs in people and their efficient, secure, and cost-effective application to patients
Clinical pharmacology
It is used of drugs to diagnose, prevent or treat disease
Pharmacotherapeutics
A medication or other chemical that when consumed or eaten in some other way, produces a physiological effect
Drug
Duty to secure research subject from harm
Beneficence
Demands fairness in the choice of research participants
Justice
Treated as autonomous individuals with the freedom to decide what is best for themselves and the right to self-determination
Autonomy
It describes the drugs chemical structure
Chemical Name
Without the need for a prescription from a doctor, direct-to-consumer sales of medications
Over the counter Drug
Study of the movement of the drug throughout the body
Pharmacokinetics
What route that medications must pass through the layer of epithelial cells that line the GI act
Oral
The absorbed quickly systemically through highly vascular mucous membrane
Sublingual/buccal
Put Directly to the Vein
Intravenous
Refers to percentage of administered drug available for activity
Bioavailability
Transportation of medications to sites of action by bodily fluids
Distribution
Time it takes for the amount of drug in the body to be reduced by half
Half Life
A chemical that is converted into an active pharmaceutical substance
ProDrug
Eliminations of Drugs from the body
Excretion
Study of a drug’s molecular, biochemical, and physiologic effects or actions.
Pharmachodynamics
Explains the connections between a drug’s therapeutic dose and its toxic dose.
Therapeutic index
