Chapter 1: Medical Uses for Drugs

Question 1

What does Pharmaceutical drugs treat?

Answer 1

The symptoms of diseases, cure diseases and prevent diseases.

Question 2

Pharmaceutical is also referred to as?

Answer 2

Medications or drugs.

Question 3

Pharmaceutical drugs when used in conjunction with radiological procedures or medical test, what do they can provide?

Answer 3

Evidence of a disease.

Question 4

Does Pharmaceutical drugs can replace substances normally found in the body?

Answer 4

Yes.

Question 5

Therapeutic drug is used to?

Answer 5

Relieve a patient’s symptoms (ex: anti-inflammatory drug can relieve the swelling and pain of arthritis)

Question 6

Curative drug is used to?

Answer 6

Target the cause of a disease rather than masking symptoms (ex: antibiotic cures a bacterial infection)

Question 7

Preventive drug is used to?

Answer 7

Ward off a disease (ex: flu shot can protect against the influenza virus).

Question 8

Diagnostic drug is used to?

Answer 8

Help diagnose diseases (ex: dilating eye drops enlarge the pupil for an eye exam).

Question 9

Replacement drug is used to?

Answer 9

Replace hormones and vitamin normally found in the body (ex: some menopause women take hormone replacement therapy).