NAVEDTRA 14295B CH 18

Question 1

What is the science dealing with the origin, nature, chemistry, effects, and uses of medications?

Answer 1

Pharmacology

Question 2

What is the branch of pharmacology that deals with biological, biochemical, and economic features of natural medications and their constituents?

Answer 2

Pharmacognosy

Question 3

What is the branch of pharmacology dealing with the preparation, dispensing, and proper use of medications?

Answer 3

Pharmacy

Question 4

What is the study of the dosages of medicines and medications?

Answer 4

Posology

Question 5

What is the study of the action or effects of medications on living organisms?

Answer 5

Pharmacodynamics

Question 6

What is the study of the uses of medications in the treatment of disease?

Answer 6

Pharmacotherapeutics

Question 7

What is the study of poisons, their actions, their detection, and the treatment of the conditions produced by them called?

Answer 7

Toxicology

Question 8

What is the science of treating disease by any method that will relieve pain, treat or cure diseases and infections, or prolong life called?

Answer 8

Therapeutics

Question 9

What provides tests for medication identity, quality, strength, and purity?

Answer 9

USP-NF

Question 10

What did the U.S. Federal Food, Medication, and Cosmetics Act designate as the official reference for medications marketed in the United States?

Answer 10

USP-NF

Question 11

What is the most widely used text/reference in American pharmacies?

Answer 11

Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy

Question 12

What is the amount of medication to be administered referred to as?

Answer 12

Dose

Question 13

A therapeutic dose is calculated on an average adult male of 24 years who weighs approximately how many pounds?

Answer 13

150

Question 14

What is the most common factor that influences the amount of medication to be given?

Answer 14

Age

Question 15

What is the most common method of administering medications?

Answer 15

Oral

Question 16

What type of medications are administered by placing the medication under the tongue?

Answer 16

Sublingual

Question 17

What type of medications are administered by placing the medication between the cheek and gum?

Answer 17

Buccal

Question 18

What type of medications are introduced by injection?

Answer 18

Parenteral

Question 19

What is the type of medication injected just below the skin’s cutaneous layers?

Answer 19

Subcutaneous

Question 20

What type of medication is injected within the dermis layer of the skin?

Answer 20

Intradermal

Question 21

What type of medication is introduced directly into the vein?

Answer 21

Intravenous

Question 22

What is the the process called by which a medication is converted into a fine spray by the use of compressed gas?

Answer 22

Nebulization

Question 23

How many important steps to follow are there when administering medication to a patient to prevent errors?

Answer 23

6

Question 24

What is any chemical substance called that has an effect on living tissue but is not used as a food?

Answer 24

Medication

Question 25

Medications are classified according to set criteria and fall into three specific areas: general, chemical, and what else?

Answer 25

Therapeutic

Question 26

What are medications called that cause shrinkage of the skin and mucous membranes?

Answer 26

Astringents

Question 27

What are bland or fatty substances called that may be applied to the skin to make it more pliable and soft?

Answer 27

Emollients

Question 28

What are agents called that inhibit or suppress the act of coughing?

Answer 28

Antitussives

Question 29

What can be used to reduce congestion and the swelling of mucous membranes?

Answer 29

Nasal Decongestants

Question 30

What substance released by most cells distributed in connective tissues usually near blood vessels promotes some of the reactions associated with inflammation and allergies such as asthma and hay fever?

Answer 30

Histamine

Question 31

What are used to counteract hyperacidity in the stomach?

Answer 31

Antacids

Question 32

Normally oral medications should not be taken within how many hours of taking an antacid?

Answer 32

2

Question 33

What suppress the growth of microorganisms?

Answer 33

Antiseptics

Question 34

What are agents called that are used to disinfect inanimate objects and are primarily germicidal in their action?

Answer 34

Disinfectants

Question 35

What is the standard by which all other antiseptic, disinfectant, and germicidal agents are measured in effectiveness?

Answer 35

Phenol

Question 36

What were the first effective chemotherapeutic agents to be available in safe therapeutic dosage ranges?

Answer 36

Sulfonamides

Question 37

What is one of the most effective and least toxic of the antimicrobial agents?

Answer 37

Penicillin

Question 38

What are a group of semi-synthetic derivatives of cephalosporin C called which is an antimicrobial agent of fungal origin?

Answer 38

Cephalosporins

Question 39

In what year were Tetracyclines introduced which were the first truly broad-spectrum antibiotics?

Answer 39

1948

Question 40

What are a group of medications that share chemical, antimicrobial, pharmacologic, and toxic characteristics, and that are effective against most gram-positive and gram-negative organisms?

Answer 40

Aminoglycosides

Question 41

What are antibiotics constituting a large group of bacteriostatic agents that inhibit protein synthesis known as?

Answer 41

Macrolides

Question 42

What type of medications facilitate the passage and elimination of feces from the colon and rectum?

Answer 42

Laxatives

Question 43

What are agents that increase the rate of urine formation called?

Answer 43

Diuretics

Question 44

What type of medications relieve pain without producing unconsciousness or impairing mental capacities?

Answer 44

Non-narcotic analgesics

Question 45

What are used to relieve or reduce fevers?

Answer 45

Antipyretics

Question 46

What are mainly used as sedative-hypnotics, anticonvulsants, anesthetics for short anesthesia, and may be used in combination with analgesics to enhance their analgesic effect?

Answer 46

Barbiturates

Question 47

Tranquilizers and mood modifiers are the two primary groups of what agents?

Answer 47

Psychotherapeutic

Question 48

What are used to produce constriction of the blood vessels with consequent rise in blood pressure?

Answer 48

Vasoconstrictors

Question 49

What taken in high doses is believed to prevent the common cold, and to treat asthma, atherosclerosis, wounds, schizophrenia, and cancer?

Answer 49

Vitamin C

Question 50

What type of medications produce a rhythmic contraction of the uterus?

Answer 50

Oxytocics

Question 51

In what year did the World Health Organization (WHO) declare the global eradication of naturally occurring smallpox?

Answer 51

1980

Question 52

What is the study and science of weights and measures called?

Answer 52

Metrology

Question 53

What is the official system of weights and measures used by Navy Pharmacy Departments for weighing and calculating pharmaceutical preparations?

Answer 53

Metric System

Question 54

What is the relationship of one quantity to another quantity of like value?

Answer 54

Ratio

Question 55

What is the expression of equality of two ratios called?

Answer 55

Proportion

Question 56

What are aromatic, sweetened hydroalcoholic solutions containing medicinal substances called?

Answer 56

Elixirs

Question 57

What are coarse dispersions comprised of finely divided insoluble material suspended in a liquid medium called?

Answer 57

Suspensions

Question 58

What are semisolid, fatty, or oily preparations of medicinal substances called?

Answer 58

Ointments

Question 59

What are solid bodies intended to introduce medicinal substances into the various orifices of the body called?

Answer 59

Suppositories

Question 60

What are gelatin shells containing solid or liquid medicinal substances to be taken orally called?

Answer 60

Capsules

Question 61

What is used for mixing and measuring various medicinal ingredients?

Answer 61

Enrlenmeyer flask

Question 62

What are conical or cylindrical clear glass containers graduated in specified quantities that are used to measure liquids volumetrically?

Answer 62

Graduates

Question 63

What type of incompatibilities occur when agents antagonistic to one another are prescribed together?

Answer 63

Therapeutic

Question 64

What type of incompatibilities are often called pharmaceutical incompatibilities and are evidenced by the failure of the medications to combine properly?

Answer 64

Physical

Question 65

What is any condition called which makes a particular treatment or procedure inadvisable?

Answer 65

Contraindication

Question 66

What is the most important tool used by the pharmacy?

Answer 66

Prescription

Question 67

The DoD Prescription (DD Form 1289) along with the Polyprescription using what form are the two standardized forms used for prescriptions?

Answer 67

NAVMED 6710/6

Question 68

What is that part of the prescription that lists the name and quantity of the medication to be used?

Answer 68

Inscription

Question 69

What part of the prescription gives the directions for the patient?

Answer 69

Signa

Question 70

How many times should the container labels used in filling prescriptions be verified?

Answer 70

3

Question 71

How many years after the issue date are prescriptions currently required to be kept on file?

Answer 71

2

Question 72

How many schedules (categories) related to a medications potential for abuse, medical usefulness, and degree of dependency, if abused did the Controlled Substance Act of 1970 establish?

Answer 72

5

Question 73

Prescriptions for schedule II substances can never be ordered with refills and in most cases must be filled within how many days of the date originally written?

Answer 73

7

Question 74

Prescriptions must be filled within 30 days of the date written and may be refilled up to five times within how many months for Schedule III substances?

Answer 74

6

Question 75

What type of substances are primarily antitussives or antidiarrheals?

Answer 75

Schedule V

Question 76

At least how often, or more frequently if necessary, the Controlled Substances Inventory Board (CSIB) takes an unannounced inventory of controlled substances?

Answer 76

Quarterly