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27 Cards in this Set
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Four Sources of Drugs
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- Chemical Substance
- Plant Parts or Products - Animal Products - Certain Food Products |
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Animal Products
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Primarily glandular products that are currently obtained from animal sources.
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Biotechnology
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Field of pharmacology that involved using living cells, usually altered cultures of Escherichia coli, to manufacture drugs.
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Certain Food Substances
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Substances that under some conditions serve both as foods and medicinal substances.
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Chemical Substances
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Agents that may be made synthetically.
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Drug
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Any substance used as medicine.
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Pharmacology
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Broad term that includes the study of drugs and their actions in the body.
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Pharmacy
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Art of preparing, compounding, and dispensing drugs for medicinal use.
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Plant Parts or Products
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Crude drugs that may be obtained from any part of various plants and used medicinally.
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Toxicology
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Science that deals with poisons- their detection and the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions caused by them.
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Additive Effect
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Combined effect of two drugs that is equal to the sum of the effects of each drug taken alone.
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Adverse or Untoward Effect
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Action, usually negative, that is different from the planned effect.
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Allergic Reaction
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Untoward reaction that develops after an individual has taken a drug.
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Analog
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Chemical compound that resembles another in structure but has different effects.
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Antagonism
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Combined effect of two drugs that is less than the effect of either drug taken alone.
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Biosynthesis
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Formation of a chemical compound by enzymes, either by an organism (in vivo) or in vitro by fragments of cells.
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Depression
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Decrease in activity of cells caused by the action of a drug.
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Diagnostic
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Pertaining to the art or act of determining the nature of a patient's disease.
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Idiosyncrasy
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Abnormal sensitivity to a drug or reaction not intended.
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Palliative
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Agent or measure that relieves symptoms.
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Potentiation
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Effect that occurs when a drug increases or prolong the action of another drug, the total effect being greater than the sum of the effects of each used alone.
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Prophylactic
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Agent or measure used to prevent disease.
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Side Effect
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Unpredictable effect that is not related to the main action of the drug.
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Stimulation
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Increase in the activity of cells produced by drugs.
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Synergism
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Joint action of agents in which their combined effect is more intense or longer in duration than the sum of their individual effects.
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Therapeutic
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Pertaining to treatment of disease.
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Tolerance
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Increasing resistance to the usual effects of an established dosage of a drug as a result of continued use.
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