Med Admin I

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Tablet

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A small, flat pellet of medication to be taken orally

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Capsule

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Small, soluble container, usually made of gelatin, that encloses a dose of oral medicine or viatmin

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Lozenge

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A small, medicated candy (in a sugar base) intended to be dissolved slowly in the mouth to lubricate and soothe irritated tissue of the throat.

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Suppository

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A small plug of medication designed to melt at body temperature within a body cavity other than the mouth (i.e., rectum or vagina)

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Ointment

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A highly viscous or semisolid preparation usually containing medicinal substances and intended for external purpposes. Is applied to the skin, mixed with a petroleum or lanolin

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Tincture

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A coloring or dyeing substance; An alcohol solution of a non-volatile medicine (Iodine is a tincture). 10-20% drug content is in your mix.

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Elixir

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A sweetened aromatic solution of alcohol and water, serving as a vehicle for medicine. Cough medicine. Sweetened 10-20% drug content in the Elixir.

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Syrups

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A concentrated solution of sugar in water, often used as a vehicle for medicine. Doesn't typically have alcohol (Robitussin)

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Lotions

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Medicated preparation consisting of a liquid suspension (in a water base) or dispersion intended for external application (Lach-hydran)

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Liniment

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A liquid preparation rubbed into the skin or gums as a counter-irritant, rubefacient, anodyne, or cleansing agent. External application (BenGay)

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Aerosols

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A substance such as a drug containing therapeutically active ingredients packaged uner pressure with a gaseous propellant for release as a spray of fine particles. Rapid absorption into the blood stream.

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Emulsion

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A suspension of small globules of one liquid in a second liquid with which the first will not mix (oil & fat mixed in water, shaken and drank rapidly [like Cod Liver Oil]).

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Transdermal Patch

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A medicated adhesive pad that is placed on the skin to deliver a time-released dose of medication through the skin into the bloodstream. Placed on hairless, clean dry skin. Wear gloves when handling.

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Enteric Coated

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Medication dissolved in the intestines

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Buffered

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Chemical system that prevents changes in Hydrogen ion concentration; Dissolved in stomach; Affects pH of the stomach.

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Scored

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Marked with lines or grooves/notches, to assist with breaking (if a med is not scored, do not break)

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Buccal

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Of, relating to, adjacent to, or in the direction of the cheek

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Sublingual

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Hypoglossal, beneath the tongue

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Cumulation

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Those which, after being received into the body in small doses, often repeated, are not immediately eliminated, but tend to accumulate in the system and eventually produce sx of poisoning.

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Antagonist

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Narcan. Where one drug negates the effects of another.

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Side effects

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Secondary, usually adverse effect. Predictable and unavoidable, desirable or undesirable.

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Adverse Effects

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A harmful, undesired reaction or effect resulting from a medication or other intervention. Unintended, undesired, unpredictable.

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Therapeutic Window

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Range of blood levels associated with the desired effect of the drug. When a drug is most likely to be clinically effective.

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Iniosyncrasy

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An unusual individual reaction to a food or drug (unexpected, unusual reaction).

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Potentiation

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Enhancement of one agent by another so that the combined effect is greater than the sum of the effects of each dose alone.

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Tolerance

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Decreased responsiveness to a stimulus, especially after repeated administration of a medication.

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Toxicity

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The quality of being poisonous, esp. the degree of virulence of a toxic microbe or of a poison.

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Maintenance dose

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The level of dosage of a drug so that it maintains the protection against exacerbation of the condition. After the initial dose.

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Maximum dose

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The largest quantity of a drug that an adult can safely take within a given period of time.

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Lethal Dose

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The dose of a chemical or biological preparation that is likely to cause death.

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Initial Dose

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First dose that we give of a medication. Sometimes called a "Loading Dose."