General Vocabulary
A disease that occurs when a person cannot stop or limit the use of a drug, even after negative consequences have been experienced.
What is Addiction
What is an Allergy?
What are corticosteroids?
Corticosteroids reduce inflammation.
QID
What is the abbreviation for four times a day?
Medication taken by mouth.
Oral (po)
The harmful and deadly effect of a medication that can develop due to the buildup of medication or bu-products in the body.
What is Toxicity?
The need for a larger dose to get the same therapeutic or desired effect.
What is Tolerance?
What are electrolytes?
They maintain normal electrolyte level and proper functioning of the body system
-itis
What is the suffix for inflammation?
Placed in the cheek by the gums to dissolve and absorb quickly.
Buccal
Slowly release the drug into the bloodstream and keep the blood levels from decreasing too rapidly.
What are Reservoirs?
For medications taken routinely, often to prior does is not completely metabolized and excreted before the next dose is given.
What is Cumulative effect?
What are bronchodilators?
It relaxes the smooth muscles of the bronchi.
bucc/o
What is the root word for cheek?
Injected directly into the bloodstream. Has the fastest absorption rate.
Intravenous (IV)
Unpleasant effects of a drug in addition to the desired or therapeutic effect.
Extreme hypersensitivity to a specific drug can cause life-threatening symptoms including swelling of the mouth and airway, difficulty breathing, wheezing, loss of consciousness, and death
What is Anaphylaxis?
What are expectorants?
It thins bronchial secretions, making it easier to cough up the mucus.
MOM
What is the abbreviation for milk of magnesia?
Injected just below the skin; Moves into the capillaries or the lymphatic vessels and is brought to the bloodstream. This process is slower than the absorption of intramuscular drugs.
Subcutaneous (subcut)
Is reached when the blood concentration of medication is high enough for the therapeutic effect to occur.
A peculiar response to a certain drug.
For instance, Benadryl causes drowsiness. When it is given to children, they often get extremely agitated.
What are leukotriene receptor antagonists?
It blocks the action of substances that cause asthma and allergic rhinitis.
ung.
What is the abbreviation or medication form of ointment?
Injected into the muscle.The greater the blood vessels in the muscle, the quicker the absorption.
Intramuscular (IM)