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24 Cards in this Set
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ADRENERGICS (SYMPATHOMIMETICS)
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DRUGS THAT STIMULATE THE SYMPATHETIC NERVES FIBERS OF THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM WHICH USES EPINEPHRINE OR EPINEPHRINE-LIKE SUBSTANCES AS NEUROTRANSMITTERS.
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PAGE 556
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ANTAGONISTS
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DRUGS THAT EXERT AN ACTION OPPOSITE TO THAT OF ANOTHER DRUG OR COMPETE FOR THE SAME RECEPTOR SITES
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PAGE 553
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ANTICHOLINERGICS (PARASYMPATHOLYTICS)
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DRUGS THAT BLOCK THE ACTION OF ACETYLCHOLINE AND SIMILAR SUBSTANCES AT THE ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTORS, WHICH RESULTS IN INHIBITION OF THE TRANSMISSION OF PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE IMPULSES
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PAGE 556
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ANTIGENS
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SUBSTANCES THAT, UPON ENTERING T0 THE BODY, ARE CAPABLE OF INDUCING SPECIFIC RESPONSES AND IN TURN REACTING WITH THE SPECIFIC PRODUCTS OF SUCH RESPONSES, SUCH AS CERTAIN ANTIBODIES AND SPECIFICALLY SENSITIZED T LYMPHOCYTES. ANTIGENS CAN BE SOLUBLE ( A FOREIGN PROTEIN) OR PARTICULATE OR INSOLUABLE( EX. BACTERIAL CELL)
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PAGE 553
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ANTIHISTAMINES
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SUBSTANCES CAPABLE OF REDUCING THE PSYCHOLOGIC AND PAHRMACOLOGIC EFFECTS OF HISTAMINE, INCLUDING TA WIDE VARIETY OF DRUGS THAT BLOCK HISTAMINE RECEPTORS.
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PAGE 553
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ANTITUSSIVE
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A DRUG THAT REDUCES COUGHING, OFTEN BY INHIBITING THE NEURAL ACTIVITY IN THE COUGH CENTER OF THE CNS.
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PAGE 558
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CORTICOSTEROIDS
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ANY OF THE HORMONES PRODUCED BY THE ADRENAL CORTEX, EITHER IN NATURAL OR SYNTHETIC DRUG FORM. THEY INFLUENCE OR CONTROL MANY KEY PROCESSES IN THE BODY, SUCH AS CARBOHYDRATE AND PROTEIN METABOLISM, THE MAINTENANCE OF SERUM GLUCOSE LEVELS, ELECTROLYTE AND WATER BALANCE AND THE FUNCTIONS OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM, SKELETAL MUSCLES, KIDNEYS AND OTHER ORGANS
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PAGE 556
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DECONGESTANTS
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DRUGS THAT REDUCES CONGESTION OR SWELLING, ESPECIALLY OF THE UPPER OR LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT
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PAGE 556
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EMPIRIC THERAPY
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A METHOD OF TREATING DISEASE BASED ON OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIENCE WITH A KNOWLEDGE OF THE PRECISE CAUSE OF OR MECHANISM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DISORDER R THE WAY IN WHICH THE THERAPEUTIC DRUG OR PROCEDURE PRODUCES IMPROVEMENT OR CURE
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PAGE 552
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EXPECTORANTS
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DRUGS THAT INCREASE THE FLOW OF FLUID IN THE RESPIRATORY TRACT, USUALLY BY REDUCING THE VISCOSITY OF BRONCHIAL AND TRACHEAL SECRETION, AND FACILITATE THEIR REMOVAL BY COUGHING AND CILIARY ACTION
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PAGE 559
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HISTAMINE ANTAGONISTS
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DRUGS THAT COMPETE WITH HISTAMINE FOR BINDING SITES ON HISTAMINE RECEPTORS
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PAGE 553
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INFLUENZA
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A HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS INFECTION OF THE RESPIRATORY TRACT CAUSED BY MYXOVIRUS AND TRANSMITTED BY AIRBORNE DROPLETS
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PAGE 552
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NON SEDATING ANTIHISTAMINES
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NEWER MEDICATIONS THAT WORK PERIPHERALLY TO BLOCK THE ACTIONS OF HISTAMINE AND THEREFORE DO NOT HAVE THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS EFFECTS OF MANY OF THE OLDER ANTIHISTAMINES: ALSO CALLED SECOND-GENERATION ANTIHISTAMINES AND PERIPHERALLY ACTING ANTIHISTAMINES
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PAGE 555
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REFLEX STIMULATION
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AN IRRITATION OF THE RESPIRATORY TRACT OCCURRING IN RESPONSE TO AN IRRITATION OF THE GI TRACT
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PAGE 552
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RHINOVIRUS
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ANY OF ABOUT 100 SEROLOGICALLY DISTINCT RIBONUCLEIC ACID (RNA) VIRUSES THAT CAUSE ABOUT 40% OF ACUTE RESPIRATORY ILLNESSES
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PAGE 552
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SYMPATHOMIMETIC DRUGS
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A CLASS OF DRUGS WHOSE EFFECTS MIMIC THOSE RESULTING NERVOUS SYSTEM. THEY DO THIS BY OCCUPYING ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR SITES AND ACTING AS AGONIST OR BY INCREASING THE RELEASE OF THE NOREPINEPHERINE AT POST GANGLIONIC NERVE ENDING
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PAGE 557
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UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACTS INFECTION
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ANY INFECTIOUS DISEASE OF THE UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT, INCLUDING THE COMMON COLD, LARYNGITIS, PHARYNGITIS, RHINITIS, SINUSITIS, AND TONSILLITIS
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PAGE 552
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BENZONATATE TESSALON PEARLS
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A NONOPOID ANTITUSSIVE DRUG, IS THOUGH TO WORK BY ANESTHETIZING OR NUMBING COUGH RECEPTORS.
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PAGE 559
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CODEINE
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OPOID ANTITUSIVE DRUGS, USED IN COMBO OF MANY OTHER RESP MEDICATIONS TO CONTROL COUGH, IT IS POTENTIALLY ADDICTIVE AND CAN DEPRESS RESPIRATIONS AS PART OF ITS CNS DEPRESSANT EFFECTS
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PAGE 559
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DEXTROMETHORPHAN
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J
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PAGE 559J
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DIPHENHYDRAMINE
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J
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PAGE 556
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GUAIFENESIN
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J
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PAGE 560
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LORATADINE
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J
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555
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NAPHAZOLINE
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J
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PAGE 557
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