Chapter 5
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- diagnostically, therapeutically
- Radiopharmaceuticals are used _______ (to diagnose a disease) or ___________ (to treat a disease).
- Destructive Agents
- Destroys
- Base or Vehicle
- main ingredient (by volume) or binder for active ingredient
- PDR (Physicians desk reference)
- reprints package inserts
- Solid, Liqiud, Gas
- Dosage form- physical manifestation of a drug as a ___, ___, or ___ that can be used in a particular way.
- dosage
- Action of a medication can not be taken into account without also considering the ____ form selected.
- Anesthetics
- to cause numbness
- Semisynthetic
- _____________- containing both natural and synthtic compnents.
- USP (United States Pharmacopoeia)
- Describes drug substances and dosage forms (revised every 5 years)
- Examples of Therapeutic Agents
- Vitamins, anti-inflammatories, antibiotics, pain meds, antidepressants
- Pharmacodynamic Agents
- Alters bodily functioning in a desired way
- Caffeine
- to forestall sleep
- Therapeutic Agents, health, relieve symptoms, combat illnesses
- _________ helps to maintain ______, _______, _____, and reverse disease processses.
- NF (National Formulary)
- Describes pharmaceutical ingredients (revised every 5 years)
- Hard Shell
- ________ come in sizes 000, 00, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (000 is largest size).
- mold
- Natural penicillin comes from ________.
- Facilitates
- Diagnostic Agents ________ an examination in order to arrive at a diagnosis
- Triple Antibiotic
- ________ ointment to prevent infection of a wound, smallpox, and polio vaccines.
- Streptomycesgriseus
- B12 and Streptomycin are derived from cultures of the bacterium___________________.
- Synthetic
- created artificially
- Synthesized
- __________- created artificially but in imitation of naturally occuring substances.
- Legend
- a drug that can be dispensed only with a prescription
- Drug
- Any substance taken into or applied to the body for the purpose of altering the body's biochemical functions and thus its physiological processes.
- Inert
- inactive
- PCN, artificially
- Semsynthetic penicillins contain both natural _____ and _____ created penicillin-works on bacteria that have become resistant to natural penicillin.
- element, protons, neutrons
- Isotopes are forms of an ____ that contain the same number of ______ but differing numbers of _____.
- Solutions
- ingredients dissolved in liquid
- Delayed Action
- ________- drug delivered at a particular site (enteric coated).
- Commingled
- blended thoroughly
- Prophylactic Agents
- Prevents illness or disease from occuring
- period of time
- Sustained release (SR, XR, ER, etc.)- drug delivered over a ___________.
- Drugs, Aid, Illness
- _____ are used to treat and cure illness,_____ in diagnosis, and prevent ______.
- Prokaryotic
- cellular organism without nucleus-bacteria or algae
- Delivery System
- ___________- the dosage form plus the mechanism used to deliver the drug (teaspoon, hypodermic syringe pump, etc) plus any design feature that affects the delivery of the drug (such as enteric coating).
- Suspensions
- ingredients dispersed in liquid
- Radiopharmaceuticals
- Diagnostic or therapeutic drugs containing radioactive isotopes.
- Oral Contraceptives
- to prevent pregnancy
- Antiseptic Iodine
- ___________ to prevent infection.
- Barbiturates
- _____________ are completely synthetic.
- Adrenaline
- _________- is a naturally occuring chemical, but is artificially created in the lab and used as a drug.
- OTC (over the counter)
- a drug that can be dispensed without a prescription
- Eukaryotic
- an organism with a nucleus (animal, plant, fungal,or mineral sources)