'Pharm' Work
The branch of medicine concerned with the uses, effects, and modes of action of drugs.
What is Pharmacology?
Exact amount of medication to be given or taken at one time.
What is Dose?
Over The Counter.
What is OTC?
Any chemical that can affect living processes.
What is Drug?
Immediately! At once!
What is Stat?
Mild and annoying, but expected and fairly common undesirable effects of a medication.
What is Side Effects?
Misuse or overuse of drug in a manner that deviates from the prescribed manner.
What is Drug Abuse?
Intended to prevent disease.
What is Prophylactic?
Under the Department of Justice, this agency is responsible for dealing with the problems of the diversion of controlled pharmaceuticals and the diversion of controlled chemicals.
What is the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency)?
Intended response to a medication.
What is Desired Effects?
The chemical name of a drug.
What is Generic?
A subject's reduced reaction to a drug following its repeated use.
What is Drug Tolerance?
A drug or chemical whose manufacture, possession, or use is regulated by government, such as illicitly used drugs, recreational drugs, and prescription medications.
What is Controlled Substance?
A name given by the maker to a product or range of products.
What is Brand Name?
Compilation of manufactures' prescribing information on prescription drugs.
What is PDR (Physicians' Desk Reference)?
Specializes in understanding the biochemical mechanisms and actions of drugs, drug uses, therapeutic roles, side effects, potential drug interaction, and monitoring parameters.
What is Pharmacists?
The diminishing of a physiological or emotional response to a frequently repeated stimulus.
What is Habituation?
A name of a product or service registered by its owner as a trademark and not usable by others without permission.
What is Proprietary Name?
Inactive, harmless substances used to satisfy a patient's desire for medication. Also used in research.
What is Placebo?
Compulsive use of drugs or substances that results in physical, physiological, or social harm.
What is Drug Addiction?
Unintended, undesirable and often unexpected effect of a medication that causes pain, discomfort or other problems, more severe than side effects.
What is Adverse Reaction?
Compulsion to take a drug, either continuously or periodically, to relieve real, or imaginary, physical or psychological need.
What is Drug Dependence?
Severe allergic reaction, possibly fatal, to a drug that occurs a short time after a drug has been administered.
What is Anaphylaxis?
An abnormal physical reaction by an individual food or drug.
What is Idiosyncrasy?
Condition in which a particular drug should not be used.
What is Contraindication?