KEY TERMS
The biochemically active component of the drug that exerts a desired therapeutic effect.
What is an active ingredient?
A drug that delivers approximately the same amount of active ingredient into a healthy volunteer’s bloodstream in the same amount of time as the innovator or brand name drug.
What is bioequivailant?
A drug that contains both natural and synthetic components.
What is a semisynthetic drug?
A unique number assigned to any brand name or generic drug products to identify the manufacturer, drug, and packaging size.
What is an NDC number?
EC
What is the pharmacy abbreviation for "enteric-coated"?
A cancer-fighting drug.
What is an anti neoplastic drug?
Bodily proceses to provide protection against disease.
What is immunity?
Used to treat mental health diseases, such as depression.
What is a psycho pharmaceutical drug?
A document that states, in easily understandable terms, the purpose of risks of the drug research that someone volunteers to take part in.
What is an informed consent form?
q.s.
What is the pharmacy abbreviation for "sufficient quantity"?
The manipulation of sterile products and devices to avoid contamination by disease-causing organisms; includes clean room protocols and hand-washing and gowning procedures.
What is aseptic technique?
A substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity.
What is a vaccine?
A drug used to prevent disease, such as aspirin to prevent heart attacks.
What is a prophylactic agent?
An inactive chemical-such as a filler, preservative, coloring, or flavoring-that is added to one or more active ingredients to improve drug formulations while causing little or no physiological effect; also called an inactive ingredient.
What are inert ingredients?
p.v.
What is the pharmacy abbreviation for "vaginally"?
A drug that kills bacteria.
What are bactericidal agents?
A drug that prevents cures, diagnoses, or relieves symptoms of disease.
What are therapeutic agents?
A field of study that examines the relationship between an individual’s genes and her or his body’s response to drugs.
What is Pharmacogenomics?
A foreign substance of toxin introduced into the body that stimulates an immune response.
What is an antigen?
mm
What is the pharmacy abbreviation for millimeter?
A medicinal substance or remedy used to change the way a living organism functions; also called a medication.
What is a drug?
A drug created artificially in the laboratory but in imitation of a naturally occurring drug.
What is a synthesized drug?
A drug substance that alters body functions in a desired way.
What are pharmacodynamic agents?
An unexpected negative consequence from taking a particular drug.
What u=is an ADR?
a.s.
What is the pharmacy abbreviation for "left ear"?