Test 1 Worksheets

Question 1

What is Pharmacology?

Answer 1

The study of how drugs affect living organisms.

Question 2

What is a drug?

Answer 2

Any substance taken or applied to the body for the purpose of altering its physiological process.

Question 3

Who thought of the 4 humors?

Answer 3

Hippocrates

Question 4

What are the four humors?

Answer 4

Blood
Phlegm
Yellow Bile
Black Bile

Question 5

What did Galen believe in?

Answer 5

Disease was caused by an imbalance of the four humors.

Question 6

Who was the first to challenge Galen?

Answer 6

Paracelsus

Question 7

What did Paracelsus believe in?

Answer 7

Not the humors, advocated individual drugs over potions.

Question 8

In the 19th century , who advanced knowledge of how drugs work on the body?

Answer 8

Claude Bernard

Question 9

Who was said to have started the field of experimental pharmacology?

Answer 9

Claude Bernard

Question 10

Who reduced death from fever by getting staff to scrub with lime water prior to procedures?

Answer 10

Ignaz Philip Semmelweis

Question 11

Who introduced antiseptics into surgery?

Answer 11

Joseph Lister

Question 12

Who is a bacteriologist who introduced a chemical agent to treat syphilis?

Answer 12

Paul Ehlich

Question 13

Who extracted insulin from the pancreas in 1923 to create a treatment for diabetes?

Answer 13

Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best

Question 14

Who was the bacteriologist who discovered penicillin?

Answer 14

Sir Alexander Fleming

Question 15

What does DIN stand for?

Answer 15

Drug Identification Number

Question 16

What are the five main places drugs are obtained?

Answer 16

Mineral, plant, animal, synthesis, microorganisms.

Question 17

What are the 7 solid preparations of a drug?

Answer 17

1. Capsule
2. Tablet
3. Pill
4. Troche
5. Suppository
6. Ointment
7. Powder

Question 18

What are the 4 fluid preparations of a drug?

Answer 18

1. Fluid extract
2. Tincture (alcoholic solution)
3. Elixir
4. Spirit

Question 19

What is an analgesic?

Answer 19

Used to relieve pain without loss of consciousness.

Question 20

What is an anesthetic?

Answer 20

Used to produce general or local loss of sensation.

Question 21

What is an antacid?

Answer 21

Used to neutralize acid in the stomach.

Question 22

What is an anthelmintic?

Answer 22

A drug used to rid the body of worms.

Question 23

What is an antiemetic?

Answer 23

These drugs are used to relieve nausea and vomiting.

Question 24

What is an antibiotic?

Answer 24

Drug that inhibits the growth of or destroy bacteria and other microorganisms.

Question 25

What is a sulfonamide?

Answer 25

Drug which inhibit the growth of or destroy bacteria.

Question 26

What is an antimalarial?

Answer 26

Drugs which prevent or cure malaria

Question 27

What is an anti-inflammatory?

Answer 27

These drugs suppress local inflammatory reactions.

Question 28

What is a antihistamine?

Answer 28

Drugs that counteract the effects of histamine, which are associated with allergic reactions.

Question 29

What is an antipyretic?

Answer 29

These are drugs that are used to reduce the temperature during a fever.

Question 30

What are the four processes of interaction with the body?

Answer 30

Absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination.

Question 31

What is drug absorption?

Answer 31

The process where a drug enters the circulatory system.

Question 32

What is drug distribution?

Answer 32

The process by which a drug moves from the blood stream into the other body fluids to the site of action.

Question 33

What is drug metabolism?

Answer 33

A process by which drugs are converted to compounds and then excreted through metabolic pathways.

Question 34

What is drug elimination?

Answer 34

The sum of the processes of drug loss from the body

Question 35

What is pharmacokinetics?

Answer 35

A science dealing with the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination of drugs and the amount of time each requires.

Question 36

What is absorption?

Answer 36

Absorption is the ability of a drug to pass through a barrier.

Question 37

Absorption of a drug depends on which three factors?

Answer 37

1. Solubility
2. The form it is given in.
3. Physical properties

Question 38

What are 6 disadvantages when it comes to oral ingestion?

Answer 38

1. Limited absorption of some drugs
2. Irritation to the GI mucosa
3. Digestive enzymes destroy drugs
4. Low gastric pH
5. Absence or presence of food
6. Metabolism by the liver.

Question 39

What is the primary site of absorption?

Answer 39

The small intestine