Subspecialties of Pharmacology

Question 1

how drugs get into the BLOODSTREAM

Answer 1

ABSORBTION

“ the nicoderm patch ABSORBED through the skin and into my BLOODSTREAM”

Question 2

how drugs move from BLOODSTREAM to TISSUES

Answer 2

DISTRIBUTION

“ the nicoderm patch entered my BLOODSTREAM and DISTRIBUTED into my TISSUES”

Question 3

PHYSICAL and CHEMICAL changes to drug in the body

Answer 3

METABOLISM

“ i felt no PHYSICAL or CHEMICAL changes in my body, i have a strong METABOLISM”

Question 4

how a drug and its WASTE PRODUCTS are EXCRETED or removed from the body

Answer 4

EXCRETION

“ i peed out the WASTE PRODUCTS of the nicoderm and i think it EXCRETED through my skin too”

Question 5

STUDY OF the EFFECTS of the BODY does to a drug

Answer 5

PHARMA-CO-KINETICS

BODY 2 the DRUGS

Question 6

STUDY OF the USE of the DRUGS in CANCER TREATMENT

Answer 6

CHEMO-THERAPY

Question 7

STUDY OF the NEW or old ARTIFICIAL man made DRUG

Answer 7

MED-IC-INAL CHEM-ISTRY

Question 8

STUDY OF the EFFECTS of the DRUGS on the BODY

Answer 8

PHARMA-CO-DYNAMICS

DRUGS 2 the BODY

Question 9

categories are:

Absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion

Answer 9

what is PHARMA-CO-DYNAMICS

Question 10

STUDY OF interaction of drugs and cell components

Answer 10

MOLE-E-CULAR PHARMA-COLOGY

Question 11

STUDY OF and effects of the DRUG that HARM the TISSUE

Answer 11

TOXIC-OLOGY