Terminologies In Introduction To Pharmacology Flashcards
It is how drugs are used to diagnose, prevent, or treat diseases. It’s the “nurse’s ally” in utilizing medications given to the patients.
Pharmacotherapeutics
It is the study of drugs and its interactions with living things which includes the chemical and physical properties of it, as well as the biochemical and physiologic effects.
Pharmacology
It is any chemical that can affect living processes whether it has a positive or negative effect.
Drug
A drug is ideal if it elicits the response for which it is given and it will not cause side effects or adverse effects. What is it called?
Selectivity
It is the name that describes the chemical structure of a drug.
Chemical name
It’s the name that is universally accepted and the name given by the scientist who made the drug.
Generic name
It’s the name chosen by the company and registered as the trademark.
Trade or Brand name
A drug is ideal if it subsides within appropriate time and it will not stay in the body for a longer time. What is it called?
Reversible action
The study of the movement of drugs throughout the body
Pharmacokinetics
The process where the medication is being transmitted from the route of administration up to the bloodstream.
Absorption
A type of route where medications need to pass through the epithelial cells that makes up the lining of the GI tract.
Enteral or oral route
If medications are administered at this route, the medication will be rapidly absorbed through the alveolar capillary network.
Inhilation via nose or mouth
In oral administration there is an effect that reduces the amount of active drug available to apply a pharmacological effect.
First pass effect
It’s a drug substance that is metabolized into an active pharmacologic substance where as it enters the body the compound should be converted.
Prodrug
It is the study of the effects of drugs in the body.
Pharmacodynamics
