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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Central Nervous System | Brain and Spinal Cord |
| Parasympathetic nervous system | Slowing the heart, contricting the pupils, and relaxing the bowels during normal conditions. |
| Sympathetic Nervous System | Stress or danger, Fight or flight |
| Toxic | causing serious harm or death, relating to or containing a poison or toxin |
| Sterilization | to kill all living microorganisms in something in order to make it incapable of ing infection or unable to reproduce |
| Radioisotope | a form of chemical element isotope that is radioactive |
| Arrhythmia | an irregulary heartbeat |
| Antigen | Involved in allergic response- triggering the immune system |
| Ceiling Effect | Further effect on pain above a particular dosage level. highest dose with effect. |
| Physicians Desk Reference | Reprint of package inserts |
| Paste | soft malleable consistancy |
| Plaster | a strip of adhesive material, usually with a dressing attached, for sticking over a cut or wound |
| Transderal | applied to skin as a patch |
| Tonic | increases stregth and tone |
| Topical | applied directly to the surface of the part of the body |
| Oil | greasy liquid that doesnt dissolve in water |
| Ampule | a small sealed glass container that holds a measured amount of a medical substance to be injected |
| Dry powder inhaler | is a device that delivers medication to the lungs in the form of a dry powder |
| Enteric coated tablet | dissolves in intestines like aspirin |
| Solution | dissolving one substance in another |