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Additive effect
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Drug interactions in which the effect of a combination of 2 or more drugs with similar actions is the equivalent to the sum of the individual effects of the same drugs given alone.
Example: 1 + 1 = 2 |
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Adverse Drug Event
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Any undesirable occurrence related to administering or failing to administer a prescribed medicine
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Adverse Drug Reaction
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Any unexpected, unintended, undesirable or excessive response to a medication given at therapeutic dosage (as opposed to overdosage)
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Adverse Effect
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A general term for any undesirable effects that are in direct response to one or more drugs
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Agonist
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A drug that binds to and stimulates the activity of one or more receptors in the body
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Antagonist
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A drug that binds to and inhibits the activity of one or more receptors in the body. Antagonist are also called inhibitors
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Antagonist Effects
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Drug interactions in which the effect of a combination of two or more drugs is less than the sum of the individual effects of the same drugs given alone
(1 + 1 = less than 2) it is usally caused by an antagonizing (blocking or reducing) effect of one drug on another |
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Bioavailability
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A measure of the extent of a drug absorption fro a given and route (from 0% to 100%)
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