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Pharm Ch. 17 Terms
Pharmacology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| antidote | a drug that counters the harmful effects of a poison |
| Code Blue | a system to communicate that a patient is in life-threatening situation |
| electrolyte | a substance that dissociates into ions in solution and is thus capable of conducting electricity |
| herbs | plants or plant oarts extracted and valued for their savory, aromatic, or medicinal qualities |
| hypertonic solution | a solution with a higher concentration of particles than body fluids contain |
| hypotonic solution | a solution with lower concentration of particles than body fluids contain |
| isotonic solution | a solution with the same level of particles, and thus the same tonicity, as body fluids |
| parental nutrition | feeding a patient by supplying a nutrient solution through a vein |
| probiotic | a product to restore or promote the growth of normal bacterial flora in the body |
| tocopherol | one of the alcohols that constitute vitamin E |
| tonicity | the relationship of a solution to the body's own fluids |
| total nutrient admixture (TNA) | an amino acid-dextrose-lipid formulation used for parenteral nutrition |
| total parental nutrition (TPN) | feeding a patient through the veins only |
| vitamin | an organic substance that is necessary for normal metabolic functioning of the body but that the body does not synthesize, so it must be obtained from food |
| water-soluble vitamins | vitamins that are excreted in the urine and are not stored in the body |
| malnutrition | any disorder of nutrition |
| propagate | reproduce |
| enteral nutrition | feeding a patient liquid food through a tube that leads to gastrointestinal system |
| cracking | separation of liquid from a parenteral nutrition solution |
| enteral | by way of, or pertaining to, the intestine |
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