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| What is the medical definition of drug? |
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A drug is a chemical which affects living processes to the
benefit of the patient. But not all chemicals which may benefit a patient can be used as
drugs |
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| What is the legal definition of drug? |
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A drug is a chemical which the FDA allows the medical profession to currently use to diagnose, prevent or
treat diseases. This permission is only granted after the drug company has
demonstrated that the drug is effective and relatively safe |
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| the study of the beneficial effects of chemicals or drugs in the body |
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study of the detrimental effects of toxins or drugs in the
body |
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| What is the combination of pharmacology and toxicology? |
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| science of preparing and dispensing drugs |
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| use of drugs in the prevention or therapy of diseases |
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Term
| What is pharmacokinetics? |
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Definition
| describes the fate of drugs in the body including administration, absorption, distribution, metabolism or excretion |
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| Availability of drug to the body |
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| What does bioavailability determine? |
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Definition
dose, dosing schedule,
onset of drug action and duration of drug action |
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| What is pharmacodynamics? |
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Definition
describes the action of drugs (agonists or antagonists) on
biochemical and physiological systems (receptors) in the body |
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Term
| What does pharmacodynamics determine? |
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Definition
Determines
therapeutic (efficacy) and adverse drug responses |
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| involves the application of pharmacology to the treatment of diseases including therapeutic applications, adverse reactions, contraindications, drug interactions |
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original drug exclusively available as long as patent is
in force and also after patent has expired |
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| What happens when the patent expire? |
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Definition
same drug can be manufactured by the same or other
companies as a generic drug; Contains the same active ingredients but looks differently |
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Scientific name;
copy of the brand-name drug in
dosage, safety, strength, how it is taken, quality, performance and intended use |
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| What is therapeutic effect? |
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| adverse effect - due to specific drug, seen in most individuals at different degrees, often predictable |
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| What is idiosyncratic reaction? |
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| adverse effect due to biochemical peculiarity of individual, seen only in few patients, does not involve immune system, unpredictable |
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| What is allergic reaction? |
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Definition
| adverse effect due to immunological peculiarity of individual, seen only in a few patients, involves immune system, unpredictable |
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| Inert substance used in scientific and clinical trials to separate the “true” from the “imagined“ effects of a drug (statistics - significance) |
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Term
| What is control and variable in treatment outcome? |
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Definition
Drug is control
Patient and Health care professional are variables |
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