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Terms21-30n41-50
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Prescription | Written order for dispensing or administering, medication, usually by a physican, dentist, or other licensed health care professional as allowed by law. |
| Universal Precaution | Procedures followed in healthcare setting to prevent infection as a result of exposure to blood or other bodily fluid |
| Side effects | Mild or annoying but expected and fairly common undesirable response to a medication |
| Third Party Administration (TPA) | direct billing by the pharmacy to the customer's insurer |
| Vitamin | General term for a number or organic substances necessary in trace amounts for normal growth, develpment, metabolism, and realease of energy from food; exclusive of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and organic salts. |
| Food & Drug Administration (FDA) | Agency responsible for the safety, efficacy, and purity of drugs marketed in the United States. |
| National Drug Code (NDC) | number on drug label that identifies the manufacturer, product substances, and size of container. |
| Insert Ingredients | inactive chemicals that are added to active ingreadients to improve drug formulations; also called inactive ingredients. |
| Active Ingredients | a chemical in the drug product producing the desired therapeutic effect. |
| Deductible | an amount that must be paid by the insured beforwe the insurance company will consider paying its portion of a medical cost |
| Acquires Immunity | immunity that is the result of exposure to disease antigen or the injection of immune globulins or through immunizations. |
| Active Immunity | Immunity resulting from the development of antibodies within a person's body that renders the person immune; may occur from exposure through a disease process or from immunizations |
| Attenuated | lessened, abbreviated; in reference to immunity, lessened virulence of a pathogen |
| Immunity | protection against a disease, especially infectious diseases. |
| Intra | into/within |
| Average Wholesale Price (AWP) | the average price that wholesales charge the pharmacy for a drug |
| Killed Vaccine | vaccines made from whole killed microbes and their components |
| Live Vaccine | vaccine composed of live microbes that have been rendered avirulent |
| Passive Immunity | immunity acquiered from the injection or passage of antibodies from an immune person or animal to another or short-term immunity or immunity passed from mother to child. |
| Vaccine | preparation containing a suspension of whole or fractionated microorganisms that on administration causes the recipient to form antibodies to a disease. |
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