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Research
| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| physiology | the study of normal body function |
| pathophysiology | the study of abnormal body processes or disease |
| pharmaceutics | the study of how drugs are introduced to the body |
| pharmacokinetics | the study of how drugs are absorbed into the bloodstream (absorption), circulated to tissues throughout the body (distribution), inactivated (metabolized), and eliminated from the bloodstream over time (metabolism and excretion) |
| pharmacodynamics | the study of drugs and their receptors on the molecular level |
| pharmacotherapeutics | the study of how drugs are used in clinical practice for individual patients |
| learning styles inventory | a tool that determines how you prefer to receive information, understand it, and commit it to memory (gives insight into how your brain works) |
| learning style | an individuals preferred method of learning |
| Pharmacists’ Inventory of Learning Styles (PILS) | a learning styles tool that Zubin Austin adapted in 2003 from Kolb’s theory of learning |
| Phase I clinical trial | research study where drugs are first tested in healthy human subjects |