Principles of Pharmacology: Exam 1 questions and ANSWERS latest
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What is one way to counteract the GI side effects of constipation(what change in diet?) - ANSWERS💫✔️-
Fiber
What organ is most commonly responsible for the excretion of medication from your body? -
ANSWERS💫✔️-Kidney
What drugs can pass through the blood-placental barrier to harm the fetus? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Alcohol
and cocaine
What intended action delays clotting? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Coumadin
A drug that is given orally but acts in another area is called what? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Systemic
A unique reaction to a drug is called? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Idiosyncrasy
What route has the quickest absorption into the bloodstream? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Intravenous
Name a diagnostic drug? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Barium
What is the source of barbiturates? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Synthetic
Is estrogen or flu vaccine a replacement drug - ANSWERS💫✔️-Estrogen
Alternative medicine includes natural or homeopathic remedies besides what? - ANSWERS💫✔️-
Electroshock therapy
What is the Ebers Papyrus? - ANSWERS💫✔️-An Egyptian medical document written in the 1550 BCE.
, Name a drug that is prophylactic drug - ANSWERS💫✔️-Flu vaccine
Name a palliative drug - ANSWERS💫✔️-Fever reducer
Name a replacement drug - ANSWERS💫✔️-Synthroid
Name a destructive drug - ANSWERS💫✔️-Antibiotic
What drugs causes birth defects? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Teratogenic
What term means "to not excrete drugs effectively"? - ANSWERS💫✔️-cumulation
True/False is isolation part of the stages of the drug cycle? - ANSWERS💫✔️-False
The rate of medication absorption is affected by what? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Amount of food in the stomach,
patient's age, concentration of medication, and pH of medication
Routes through which medications are excreted from that body include what? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Kidneys,
lungs, bile, and breast milk
One system of liver damage caused by the effect of medication is what? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Jaundice
Eating yogurt counteracts the GI side effect of what? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Diarrhea
Metabolism is also known as? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Bio transformation
The science of (blank) is the source of drugs, allowing more to be produced or creating different
variations of the source, is known as what type of engineering? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Altering, genetic
2026 !!!
What is one way to counteract the GI side effects of constipation(what change in diet?) - ANSWERS💫✔️-
Fiber
What organ is most commonly responsible for the excretion of medication from your body? -
ANSWERS💫✔️-Kidney
What drugs can pass through the blood-placental barrier to harm the fetus? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Alcohol
and cocaine
What intended action delays clotting? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Coumadin
A drug that is given orally but acts in another area is called what? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Systemic
A unique reaction to a drug is called? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Idiosyncrasy
What route has the quickest absorption into the bloodstream? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Intravenous
Name a diagnostic drug? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Barium
What is the source of barbiturates? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Synthetic
Is estrogen or flu vaccine a replacement drug - ANSWERS💫✔️-Estrogen
Alternative medicine includes natural or homeopathic remedies besides what? - ANSWERS💫✔️-
Electroshock therapy
What is the Ebers Papyrus? - ANSWERS💫✔️-An Egyptian medical document written in the 1550 BCE.
, Name a drug that is prophylactic drug - ANSWERS💫✔️-Flu vaccine
Name a palliative drug - ANSWERS💫✔️-Fever reducer
Name a replacement drug - ANSWERS💫✔️-Synthroid
Name a destructive drug - ANSWERS💫✔️-Antibiotic
What drugs causes birth defects? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Teratogenic
What term means "to not excrete drugs effectively"? - ANSWERS💫✔️-cumulation
True/False is isolation part of the stages of the drug cycle? - ANSWERS💫✔️-False
The rate of medication absorption is affected by what? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Amount of food in the stomach,
patient's age, concentration of medication, and pH of medication
Routes through which medications are excreted from that body include what? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Kidneys,
lungs, bile, and breast milk
One system of liver damage caused by the effect of medication is what? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Jaundice
Eating yogurt counteracts the GI side effect of what? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Diarrhea
Metabolism is also known as? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Bio transformation
The science of (blank) is the source of drugs, allowing more to be produced or creating different
variations of the source, is known as what type of engineering? - ANSWERS💫✔️-Altering, genetic
