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Medications Flashcards

1
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Stops nausea

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Antiemetic

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2
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Makes patient sleep before surgery

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Sedative or hypnotic

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3
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Treats slow food digestion cycle ad stomach problems

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Gastrointestinal

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4
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Anti-allergic

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Antihistamic

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5
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Treats heart problems

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Cardiovascular

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6
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Drugs to threat breathing problems

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Respiratory

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7
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Drugs that relieve pain

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Analgesics

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8
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Drugs that relieve indigestion and heart burn by neutralizing stomach acid

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Antiacids

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9
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drugs used to control irregularities of heartbeat

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Antiarrhythmics

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10
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Drugs that prevent blood from clotting

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Anticoagulants

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11
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helps to dissolve and dispersed blood clots and may be presciber for patients with recent arterial or venous thrombosis

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Thrombolytics

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12
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drugs that prevents epileptic seizures

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Anticonvulsants

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13
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Drugs that lower blood pressure

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Antihypertensives

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14
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drugs used to treat psychiatric disorders

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Antipsychotics

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15
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Drugs that reduce fever

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Antipyretics

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16
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Reduce oxygen needs of the heart by reducing heart beat rate

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Beta-blockers

17
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Drugs that open up bronchial tubes within the lungs

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Branchodilators

18
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primarly used as anti-inflammatories in arthritis or asthma or as immunosupressives also treats defienciency of natural hormones, malignancies

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Corticosteroids

19
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drugs that reduce swelling of mucous membranes that line the nose by constricting blood vessels, thus relieving nasal stuffiness

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Decongestants

20
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Drugs that increase quantity of urine produced by kidneys and passed out of the body, thus ridding the bpdy of excess fluid

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Diuretics

21
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drug that stimulates Flow of saliva and promoter coughing to eliminate phelgm from respiratory tract

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Expectorant

22
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Drugs that lower level of glucose in blood

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Hypoglycemics

23
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Drugs that reduce body’s normal reaction to invasion by disease

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Immunosuppressives

24
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drugs that increase frequency and ease of bowel movement

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Laxatives

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