NON-STEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORIES (NSAIDS) - ANSWER ✔✔-relieve arthritis - mild to
moderate pain
OPIATE AGONISTS - ANSWER ✔✔-relieve moderate to severe pain, lessen apprehension & sedation
VACCINES & TOXOIDS - ANSWER ✔✔-disease prevention
Chemical Name - ANSWER ✔✔-Relates to chemical and molecular structure. rarely use because of it
complexity.
Contraindication - ANSWER ✔✔-any condition which makes a particular treatment or procedure
inadvisable.
Drug - ANSWER ✔✔-Therapeutic agent, any substance, other than food , used in the prevention,
diagnosis, alleviation, treatment, or cure disease.
Generic name - ANSWER ✔✔-derived from chemical name
Hypersensitivity - ANSWER ✔✔-Abnormal sensitivity, a condition in which there is an exaggerated
response by the body to stimulus of a foreign agents.
Indication - ANSWER ✔✔-The basis for irritation of a treatment for a disease or of a diagnostic test.
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Maximum dose - ANSWER ✔✔-largest amount of medication that can be given
MTF - ANSWER ✔✔-Medical treatment facility
Opiate - ANSWER ✔✔-a drug that contain opium, derivatives of opium, or any several semisynthetic
drugs with opium like activity.
Opioid - ANSWER ✔✔-strictly speaking, pertaining to natural and synthetic chemicals that have opium-
like effects similar to morphone, though they are not derived from opium.
Patency - ANSWER ✔✔-the state of being open or eposed
Pharmacology - ANSWER ✔✔-the science concerned with drugs, their sources, appearance, chemistry,
actions, and uses.
Pharmacy - ANSWER ✔✔-is the branch of pharmacology dealing with preparation, dipensing, and
proper use of medications.
PDR - ANSWER ✔✔-A comprehensive book listing of drug products for medical professionals.
Therapeutics - ANSWER ✔✔-Is the science of treating diseases and infections, or prolong life.
Toxicology - ANSWER ✔✔-is the study of poisons.
Trade/Brand Name - ANSWER ✔✔-Proprietary name given by a manufacture
MTFs - ANSWER ✔✔-A numbers of sources containing information on drug actions, uses, and specific
indications, contraindications, adverse reactions and dosages are available in where ?
Annually - ANSWER ✔✔-How often does the PDR get publish?
Five - ANSWER ✔✔-How many sections does the PDR has ?
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