What the Body Does to the Drug
This term means drugs enter the body and pass into circulation.
Absorption
This term means what the body does to a drug.
Pharmacokinetics
This is the manufacturer’s proprietary name for a drug.
The brand name or trade name
These are small, locklike areas of cell membranes that control what substances enter or change cell activity.
Receptor sites
These are mild but annoying responses to a drug, such as nausea or headache.
Side effects
This term means the movement of a drug through the blood and lymph systems to reach its site of action.
This term means what a drug does to the body.
Pharmacodynamics
This is the most common drug name used by the manufacturer in all countries.
The generic name
This drug activates or unlocks a cell receptor and causes the same action as the body’s own chemicals.
An agonist
These are severe symptoms or problems from a drug that can cause great harm.
An adverse reaction
This term refers to physical and chemical reactions inside the body that build up or break down compounds.
Metabolism
This term refers to the use of drugs in the treatment of disease.
Pharmacotherapeutics
These names identify the chemicals that actually form the drug.
Chemical names
This drug attaches to a receptor but does not activate or unlock it.
An antagonist
This is a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction.
An anaphylactic reaction
This term means altering a drug into active or inactive chemicals after it has been absorbed.
Biotransformation
This is the time it takes the body to remove 50% of a drug.
Half-life
This term means the drug does what it is supposed to do.
The desired action
This drug attaches to a receptor site but produces only a partial effect.
A partial agonist
This route places medication under the tongue.
Sublingual
This term means the process by which waste products, including drugs, are eliminated from the body.
This term means a drug must be metabolized before it becomes active.
Prodrug
These are drug products that are chemically the same or identical.
Bioequivalent drugs
This occurs when two drugs taken together have an effect greater than the sum of each drug given alone.
A synergistic effect
This route gives medication by injection deep into the muscle.
Intramuscular or IM