Unit 2

Question 1

Plant sources

Answer 1

Digitalis, iodine, saw palmetto

Question 2

Pharmacodynamics

Answer 2

Biochemical and physiological effects of drugs upon living organisms

Question 3

Pharmacogenetics

Answer 3

Personalized drug treatment based on a persons genes

Question 4

Pharmacotherapeutics

Answer 4

Study of drugs and the relationship to treatments of disease

Question 5

Pharmacokinetics

Answer 5

Study of the absorption, distribution, biotransformation, and elimination of a drug

Question 6

Absorption

Answer 6

How meds enter the body and are absorbed

Question 7

Distribution

Answer 7

How meds are carried by the bloodstream throughout the body

Question 8

Metabolism

Answer 8

Drug completes the action it’s designed to do

Question 9

Excretion

Answer 9

Elimination from the body through kidneys, GI Tracy, or respiratory tract

Question 10

Blood brain barrier

Answer 10

A functional barrier between brain cells and capillaries

Question 11

Parenteral

Answer 11

Medication given any way except by using a needle

Question 12

Non parenteral

Answer 12

Not by using a needle

Question 13

Pharmokentics order

Answer 13

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