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Terminology-Week 2
PHM111
Term | Definition |
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Adjunct | Medication used to compliment the effects of another drug |
Antiemetic | A drug that reduces or stops vomiting |
Antihypertensive | Agent that decreases blood pressure |
Anxiety | Condition associated with tension, apprehension, fear, or panic |
Anxiolytic | Medication used to treat anxiety |
Attention deficit/Hyperactivity disorder | Brain disorder that affects the ability to focus one's attention |
Ayurveda | Holistic traditional medical system where the prevention of disease is empasized |
Bipolar Disorder | Illness associated with sudden swings in mood between depression and periods of insomnia, racing thoughts, distractibility, and increased goal-directed behavior |
Blood Brain Barrier | Barrior that exists in the brain as a result of special permeability characteristic of the capillaries that supply brain cells; these capillaries prevent certain soulutes or chemicals from being tranferred from the blood to the brain. |
Chiropractic | Manual manipulation of the joints and muscles |
Cognition | Activities associated with thinking, learning, and memory |
Depression | Mental state characterized by sadness, feelings of loss and grief, and loss of appetite; may include suicidal thoughts |
Diagnosis | Physician's recognition of a condition or disease |
Drug Dependence | Continuing to take the drug in order to avoid the onset of physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms |
Electroconvulsive Therapy | Electrical current administred to an anesthetized patient, causing, a braif seizure |
Enuresis | Bedwetting or uncontrollable urination during sleep |
Extrapyramidal Symptoms | Excessive muscle movement associated with the use of neuroleptics |
Generalized Anxiety Disorder | Condition associated with excessive worrying and tension that is experienced daily for more than 6 months |
Herbal | Any plant substance used for health purposes |
Homeopathy | System of therapy based on the brief that dilutions of medicinal substances that cause a specific symptom can be used to treat an illness |
Insomnia | Condition characterized by difficulty falling asleep and/or staying asleep |
Major Deperession | Illness associated with persistent feelings of sadness, emptiness, or hopelessness that persists. |
Mania | Mood state characterized by excessive excitement, elevated mood, and exalted feelings |
Monoamine Oxidase | Enzyme found in nerve terminals, neurons, liver and intestines that inactivate specific neurotransmitters and dietary amines |
Mood Disorder | Affective disorder involving a change in emotional behavior |
Neurosis | Mental disorder arising from stress or anxiety in the patient's environment without loss of contact with reality |
Neurotransmitters | Chemicals that are transmitted from one neuron to another as electrical nerve impulses |
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder | Condition associated with an inability to or control or stop repeated unwanted thoughts or behaviors |
Panic Disorder | Condition associated with repeated sudden onset of feelings of terror |
Phobia | Irrational fear of things or situations that produce symptoms of intense anxiety |
Placebo | Inert compound believed by the patient to be an active agent |
Post-traumatic stress disorder | Disorder that develops in persons who have participated in, witnessed, or been a victim of a terrifying event |
Prophylaxis | To prevent disease |
Psychosis | Mental state characterized by disorganized behavior and thought, delusions, hallucinations, and a loss of touch with reality |
Psychotherapy | Therapy that includee helping the patient work through personal problems that affect emotions and behaviors |
Schizophrenia | Type of psychosis characterized by delusions of thought, visual and/or auditory hallucinations and speech disturbances |
Serotonin Syndrome | Life threatening adverse drug reaction caused by excessive serotonin that produces symptoms of confusion, agitation, diarrhea, tumors, increased blood pressure and seizures |
Synthetic Medicine | Medication made in a laboratory from chemical processes |
Tardive Dyskinesia | Inappropriate postures of the neck, trunk and limbs accompanied by involuntary thrusting of the tongue |
Tolerance | Condition occuring when increased doses of a drug are required in order to achieve the same effects as were achieved at lower doses |