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Week 4
Non-Opioid analgesics and antagonists
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Perception | the physical components of pain |
| Reaction | the psychologic component of pain |
| Antipyretic | ability to reduce a fever: affect the hypothalamus (controls the body temperature) |
| anti-inflammatory | ability to reduce inflammation |
| uricosuric | ability to increase the excretion of uric acid in the urine |
| antiplatelet | ability to inhibit the aggregation (clumping) of platelets in the blood |
| Analgesic | ability to reduce or relieve pain |
| PGE | Prostaglandins, which are lipids produced by cells during inflammation & can sensitize the pain receptors |
| TNF-⍺ | is a cytokine that is released by cells during the inflammatory response in periodontal disease |
| Pain | sensation of pain is the means by which the body is made urgently aware of the presence of tissue damage |