Terminologies in Introduction to Pharmacology Flashcards
It is the use of drugs to diagnose, prevent or treat disease.
Pharmacotherapeutics
It is also known as compliance and is defined as the extent to which a patient’s behavior coincides with medical advice.
Patient Adherence
The study of the movement of the drug throughout the body.
Pharmacokinetics
It refers to the percentage of administered drugs available for activity.
Bioavailability
It is a compound that is metabolized into an active pharmacologic.
Prodrug
It is the amount of drug administered is equal to the amount being eliminated .
Steady State
The elimination of drugs from the body.
Excretion
It is the study of the effects of drugs on the body.
Pharmacodynamics
It refers to the amount of drug to elicit a specific response to a drug.
Potency
It describes the relationship between the therapeutic dose of the drug and the toxic dose of a drug.
Therapeutic Index
It is the time it takes for a drug to reach the minimum effective concentration.
Onset
What do you call a drug reaches its highest concentration in the blood?
Peak
It is a medication that can mimic the receptor activity regulated by endogenous compounds.
Agonist
What do you call when the medication blocks normal receptor activity that is regulated by endogenous compounds?
Antagonist
It is the drugs that affect multiple receptor sites.
Nonspecific
