NRS Introduction to Clinical Pharmacology Chapter 3
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Course
Clinical Pharmacology
Institution
Clinical Pharmacology
Drug that may replace another drug at a receptor site, decreasing the effect of the first drug - answer-displacement
What the drug does to the body - answer-Pharmacodynamics
The use of drugs in the treatment of disease - answer-Pharmacotherapy
Products that are chemically the same - answer...
NRS Introduction to Clinical Pharmacology Chapter 3
Drug that may replace another drug at a receptor site, decreasing the effect of the first
drug - answer-displacement
What the drug does to the body - answer-Pharmacodynamics
The use of drugs in the treatment of disease - answer-Pharmacotherapy
Products that are chemically the same - answer-bioequivalent
Responses to a drug that are strange, unique, peculiar, or unpredicted - answer-
idiosyncratic
Process that happens mainly in the liver where there are enzymes that break down the
chemicals that make up the drug into its usable and unusable parts - answer-bio
transformation
What the body does to the drug - answer-Pharmacokinetics
Patients may see several specialists, each of whom may prescribe different drugs -
answer-polypharmacy
These drugs have the potential to cause birth defects - answer-teratogenic
Drug name followed by
the symbol ®, which indicates that the name is
registered to a specific
drug maker - answer-Trade/Brand
name
Most common name
used for a drug - answer-Generic name
Name used for a drug
that is the same throughout the world - answer-Generic name
Names that include all
the different substances
used to make the drug - answer-Chemical name
The proprietary name of
a drug - answer-Trade/Brand
name
In the case of an opiate overdose, Naloxone
is given to a patient to reverse the effects of the
opiate, which is bound to the opioid receptor
, sites. - answer-Antagonist
A patient is in severe pain and is given morphine,
which then activates the opioid receptors and
produces pain relief. - answer-Agonist
Buspirone is given to a patient who is already
taking Prozac to help boost the effects of the antidepressant. - answer-Partial agonist
The _______ process identifies how the drug
enters the body and reaches the area it needs to affect. - answer-Partial agonist
Absorption of a drug is enabled through the processes of diffusion, ________, and osmosis
- answer-filtration
Before a drug can enter the body's tissues, it must be
dissolved in body fluid. How effectively a drug can
dissolve is called - answer-solubility
Upon entering the body, the drug must reach the area
needing treatment. The method of movement can
occur by way of the blood or lymph system and is
known as________ of a drug - answer-distribution
Biotransformation is the process by which the body
transforms the drug into usable or inactive components and happens primarily in the -
answer-liver
List five methods that can be used to give drugs to a
patient. - answer-Orally, Rectally, Intramuscularly, Intravenously, Subcutaneously
Excretion is the process of removing the inactive
chemicals, by-products, and waste from the body.
From the list below, check each of the methods by
which chemicals are excreted.
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