Nursing: Pharmacology: common suffixes
questions and answers 25/2026
Set-up for these cards:
The suffix is given as "-amide" and the answer is the - Answer medication classification:
sulfonylureas antidiabetics
-ase - Answer thrombolytic agents
-avir; -ivir; -ovir - Answer antivirals
-azine - Answer typical antipsychotics
-bital - Answer barbituates
-caine - Answer local anesthetic agents
-choline - Answer cholinergic agonists (direct acting muscarinic agonists)
-cillin - Answer penicillin antibiotics
-lol - Answer beta-adrenergic anatagonists (beta blockers)
-mycin - Answer aminoglycoside or macrolide antibiotics
-navir - Answer protease inhibitors (treatment of HIV and AIDS)
-pam; -lam - Answer benzodiazepines; antianxiety; sedative
questions and answers 25/2026
Set-up for these cards:
The suffix is given as "-amide" and the answer is the - Answer medication classification:
sulfonylureas antidiabetics
-ase - Answer thrombolytic agents
-avir; -ivir; -ovir - Answer antivirals
-azine - Answer typical antipsychotics
-bital - Answer barbituates
-caine - Answer local anesthetic agents
-choline - Answer cholinergic agonists (direct acting muscarinic agonists)
-cillin - Answer penicillin antibiotics
-lol - Answer beta-adrenergic anatagonists (beta blockers)
-mycin - Answer aminoglycoside or macrolide antibiotics
-navir - Answer protease inhibitors (treatment of HIV and AIDS)
-pam; -lam - Answer benzodiazepines; antianxiety; sedative
