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Chapter 2
Drugs & Definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Low Dose-Effect Curve: | measuring the response to the dose of the drug. |
| Potency: | the amount of drug required to produce an effect. |
| Efficacy: | related to the maximal effect of a drug regardless of dose. |
| Therapeutic Action : | the intended or desired results. |
| Therapeutic Range: | range between the dose causing the minimum effect and the dose causing the minimum adverse effect. |
| Therapeutic Index (TI): | number that determines the safety of a drug (the greater the TI, the safer the drug). |
| Hepatic: | liver. |
| Biotransformation: | is the body's way of changing a drug so that it can be more easily excreted by the kidneys. |
| Tolerance: | the need for an increasingly larger dose of the drug to obtain the same effects as the original dose. |
| Renal : | kidney. |
| Duration: | is the length of a drugs effect. |
| Half-Life: | the half-life of a drug is the amount of time that passes for its concentration to fall to (50%) of its original blood level. |