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What are the three names of drugs?
Chemical Name
Nonproprietary Name
Proprietary Name
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Pharmacodynamics
To study the response of an organism or tissue to the actions of drugs in the absence of disease
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Pharmacotherapy
use of drugs in the treatment of disease
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Therapeutics
treatment of diseases in general including the use of drugs, surgery, radiation, behavior modification, and /or modalities
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Pharmacokinetics
The study and characterization of the time course of drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion.
Basis for drug dosage regimens in various species
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Chemotherapy
a branch of pharmacology dealing with drugs that selectively inhibit or destroy specific agents
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Toxicology
Study of Poisons
Science that defines limits of safety of chemical agents to humans and animals
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Posology
study of medicine dosages
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Pharmacognosy
study of naturally occuring drug sources
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Pharmacy
A seperate and complimentary health care profession concerned with collection, preparation, standardization and dispensing of drugs
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Clinical Pharmacology
pertaining to or founded on actual observation and treatment of patients
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M.E.D.I.C.
Minimal Essenstial Drug Informaton
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Name the 8 Parts of MEDIC
- 1) Therapeutic Goal
- 2) Routes of Administration and Dose Forms
- 3) Dose Regimen
- 4) Legal/Withdrawal Times
- 5) Cost
- 6) Special Precautions and Contraindications
- 7) Adverse Reactions
- 8) Evaluations
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5 Molecular Aspects of Drug Binding
- 1) Covalent
- 2) Electorstatic
- 3) Hydrogen
- 4) Van Der Waals
- 5) Hydrophobic
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3 Types of Receptors
- 1) Cell Membrane
- 2) Cytoplasm
- 3) Nucleus
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Agonist
affinity plus efficacy
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Full Agonist
maximum effect with only a portion of the receptors occupied
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Partial Agonist
All receptors occupied never reach maximum effect
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Spare Receptors
receptors unoccupied at maximum effect
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