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This word comes from the Greek word therapeutikos
What is therapeutic?
A medication that alters body functioning in a desired way
What is a pharmacodynamic agent?
Created the poliovirus vaccine
Who is Dr. Jonas Salk?
Microscopic or one-celled organisms
What are microorganisms (microbes)?
A substance that helps healthcare providers diagnose a medical condition
What is a diagnostic agent?
A medication that may be sold without a prescription
Discovered penicillin by accident in 1928
Who is Dr. Alexander Fleming?
Works to kill specific living elements such as bacteria, fungi, viruses, or abnormal cancer cells
What is a destructive agent?
Has little or no physiological effect
What is an inert ingredient?
A product that uses minute dilutions of natural substances purportedly to stimulate the body's immune system
What is a homeopathic product?
Prevents illness or disease from occurring
What is a prophylactic agent?
What are genetically engineered drugs?
A field of study that blends two scientific areas: pharmacology and genomics
What is pharmacogenomics?
The biochemically active components that exert the desired effects
What is the active ingredient?
A drug that can be legally dispensed to a patient only upon the receipt of a state-licensed healthcare provider's directive via e-prescription, fax, or verbal prescription.
What is a prescription drug?
Responsible for discovering insulin
Who are Sir Fredrick Banting and his assistant Charles Best?
The first official U.S. psychopharmaceutical drug to treat mental health diseases.
What is chlorpromazine (generic for Thorazine)?
Kill rather than inhibit bacteria
What are bactericidal agents?
Use toxins to poison the cancer cells
What are anti-neoplastic drugs?
A medication that targets a specific need in the body
What is a therapeutic agent?
Germ-fighting
What is antiseptic?
Discovered the probiotic theory
Who was Elie Metchnikoff?
The body's secretions released by glands into the circulatory system
What are hormones?
Process to protect patients from harmful germs
What is aseptic technique?