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Key Terms (Abrams Clinical Drug Therapy) Exam with Accurate Solutions | Rated A+ Generic name - chemical or official name of the drug that is independent of the manufacturer (eg. amoxicillin) Brand (trade) name - manufacturers chosen name for a drug Controlled Substance - drugs that are categ...

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Generic name - ✔✔chemical or official name of the drug that is

independent of the manufacturer (eg. amoxicillin)

Brand (trade) name - ✔✔manufacturers chosen name for a drug

Controlled Substance - ✔✔drugs that are categorized by federal law

according to therapeutic usefulness and potential for abuse

Drug classifications - ✔✔groups of medications that are categorized based

according to their effects on a particular body system, their therapeutic

uses and their chemical characteristics

Over the counter (OTC) drugs - ✔✔medications that are legally availabe

without a prescription

Pharmacogenomics - ✔✔study of how a persons genetic heritage can

influence variable responses to drugs; generally referring to polymorphisms

that occur in a patient population such as an ethnic group

, Pharmacotherapy - ✔✔use of drugs to prevent, diagnose or treat signs,

symptoms and disease processes

Prescription drugs - ✔✔medications that are ordered in writing by a

licensed health care provider

Prototype - ✔✔an individual drug that represent a group of drugs; often the

first drug of a particular drug class that similar drugs are compared to

Pharmacokinetics - ✔✔drug movement throughout the body (what the body

does to the drug) to rech sites of action, metabolism and excretion

Pharmacokinetics processes - ✔✔Absorption

Distribution

Metabolism

Excretion

Absorption - ✔✔time the drug enters the body to the time it enters the

blood stream to be circulated

Distribution - ✔✔transport of drug molecules within the body to tissue sites

after it is injected and absorbed in the blood stream

Metabolism (biotransformation) - ✔✔method by which drugs are inactivated

or biotransformed by the body; takes place mostly in the liver

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