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Pharmacology

Chapter 10

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Pharmacology a broad term that includes the study of drugs and their actions in the body
Pharmacy the art of preparing, compounding, and dispensing drugs for medicinal use
Toxicology the science that deals with poisons - their detection and the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions caused by them
Drug any substance used as medicine (e.g., used to diagnose, cure, mitigate, treat, or prevent disease)
Chemical substances agents that may be made synthetically (e.g., sulfonamides, aspirin, sodium bicarbonate)
Plant parts or products crude drugs that may be obtained from any part of various plants and used medicinally; leaves, bark, fruit, roots,rhizomes, resin, and other parts may be used (e.g., ergot, digitalis, opium)
Animal products primarily glandular products that are crrently obtained from animal sources (e.g., thyroid hormone, insulin)
Certain food substances substances that under some conditions serve both as foods and as medicinal substances (i.e, vitamins and minerals invarious foods)
Adverse or untoward effect an action, usually negative, that is different from the planned effect
Allergic reaction an untoward reaction that develops after the individual has taken a drug
Analog a chemical compound that resembles another in structure but has different effects
Antagonism the combined effect ot two drugs that is less than the effect of either drug taken alone
Depression a decrease in activity of cells caused by the action of a drug
Diagnostic pertaining to the art or act of determining the nature of a patient's disease
Idiosyncrasy abnormal sensitivity to a drug, or a reation not intended
Palliative an agent or measure that relieves symptoms
Prophylactic an agent or measure used to prevent disease
Therapeutic pertaining to treatment of disease
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