Question | Answer |
Require an order by health care professional licensed to prescribe | Prescription |
Drugs or chemical substances used for nontherapeutic purposes | Illegal Drugs |
Gives the exact chemical makeup of the drug | Chemical Name |
Name given the drug when it is first proposed by the company (not capitalized) | Generic Name |
Name under which the drug is listed by FDA. | Official Name |
Name the drug is registered and restricted to the owner of the drug. | Trade or brand name. |
Process by which drugs alter cell physiology | Pharmacodynamics. |
Study of the movement of drug molecule in the body. | Pharmokinetics |
The drug with the best "fit" equals the greatest response | Affinity |
Process by which a drug passes into the bloodstream. | Absorption |
Route thats affect absorption. | Enteral parenteral percutaneous |
Drugs taken orally, absorbed from GI tract to portal circulation, liver may extensively metabolize the drug before it reaches circulation | First Pass |
Refers to the waysin which drugs are transported by circulating body fluids to the site of action. | Distribution |
Process by which the body inactivates drugs | Metabolism |
What is ADME | Absorption Distribution Metabolism Excretion |
Elimination of the drug from the body. | Excretion. |
Increased metabolism=_____ drug effect | increased |
Primary organ of excretion. | kidney |
How many 1/2 lifes for most out the medication to be out of the body | 5 |
When the action of one drug is altered by the action of another drug. | interaction |
2 drugs with similar actions for doubled effect | additive |
Combined effect of 2 drugs is greater than the sum of the effect of each drug given alone | synergistic |
One drug interferes with the action of another. | antagonistic |
One drug is chemically incompatible with another drug. | incompatibility |
what is DDPTR | drug dose patient time route |