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NUR 210 | Principles of Pharmacology ||Verified
Exam!!!|| Exam 1 Study Guide 2026/2027 |Galen
College
A drug that is given orally but acts in another area is called
what? - Answer-Systemic
A unique reaction to a drug is called? - Answer-
Idiosyncrasy
What route has the quickest absorption into the
bloodstream? - Answer-Intravenous
Name a diagnostic drug? - Answer-Barium
What is the source of barbiturates? - Answer-Synthetic
Is estrogen or flu vaccine a replacement drug - Answer-
Estrogen
Alternative medicine includes natural or homeopathic
remedies besides what? - Answer-Electroshock therapy
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What is the Ebers Papyrus? - Answer-An Egyptian
medical document written in the 1550 BCE.
Name a drug that is prophylactic drug - Answer-Flu
vaccine
Name a palliative drug - Answer-Fever reducer
Name a replacement drug - Answer-Synthroid
Name a destructive drug - Answer-Antibiotic
What drugs causes birth defects? - Answer-Teratogenic
What term means "to not excrete drugs effectively"? -
Answer-cumulation
True/False is isolation part of the stages of the drug cycle?
- Answer-False
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The rate of medication absorption is affected by what? -
Answer-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? - Answer-Kidneys, lungs, bile, and
breast milk
One system of liver damage caused by the effect of
medication is what? - Answer-Jaundice
What is one way to counteract the GI side effects of
constipation(what change in diet?) - Answer-Fiber
What organ is most commonly responsible for the
excretion of medication from your body? - Answer-Kidney
What drugs can pass through the blood-placental barrier
to harm the fetus? - Answer-Alcohol and cocaine
What intended action delays clotting? - Answer-Coumadin
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Eating yogurt counteracts the GI side effect of what? -
Answer-Diarrhea
Metabolism is also known as? - Answer-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? - Answer-
Altering, genetic
Chemist are isolating pure chemicals from (blank) that
marked the beginning of modern what? - Answer-Plant,
pharmacology
Early records show that pharmacological (blank) consisted
of (blank) (blank) and animal products - Answer-
Treatments, plants, minerals
The Dutch word (blank) means "dry" - Answer-Droog
The Greek word (blank) means medicine, (blank) and
(blank) - Answer-Pharmakon, remedy, poison
NUR 210 | Principles of Pharmacology ||Verified
Exam!!!|| Exam 1 Study Guide 2026/2027 |Galen
College
A drug that is given orally but acts in another area is called
what? - Answer-Systemic
A unique reaction to a drug is called? - Answer-
Idiosyncrasy
What route has the quickest absorption into the
bloodstream? - Answer-Intravenous
Name a diagnostic drug? - Answer-Barium
What is the source of barbiturates? - Answer-Synthetic
Is estrogen or flu vaccine a replacement drug - Answer-
Estrogen
Alternative medicine includes natural or homeopathic
remedies besides what? - Answer-Electroshock therapy
,2|Page
What is the Ebers Papyrus? - Answer-An Egyptian
medical document written in the 1550 BCE.
Name a drug that is prophylactic drug - Answer-Flu
vaccine
Name a palliative drug - Answer-Fever reducer
Name a replacement drug - Answer-Synthroid
Name a destructive drug - Answer-Antibiotic
What drugs causes birth defects? - Answer-Teratogenic
What term means "to not excrete drugs effectively"? -
Answer-cumulation
True/False is isolation part of the stages of the drug cycle?
- Answer-False
,3|Page
The rate of medication absorption is affected by what? -
Answer-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? - Answer-Kidneys, lungs, bile, and
breast milk
One system of liver damage caused by the effect of
medication is what? - Answer-Jaundice
What is one way to counteract the GI side effects of
constipation(what change in diet?) - Answer-Fiber
What organ is most commonly responsible for the
excretion of medication from your body? - Answer-Kidney
What drugs can pass through the blood-placental barrier
to harm the fetus? - Answer-Alcohol and cocaine
What intended action delays clotting? - Answer-Coumadin
, 4|Page
Eating yogurt counteracts the GI side effect of what? -
Answer-Diarrhea
Metabolism is also known as? - Answer-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? - Answer-
Altering, genetic
Chemist are isolating pure chemicals from (blank) that
marked the beginning of modern what? - Answer-Plant,
pharmacology
Early records show that pharmacological (blank) consisted
of (blank) (blank) and animal products - Answer-
Treatments, plants, minerals
The Dutch word (blank) means "dry" - Answer-Droog
The Greek word (blank) means medicine, (blank) and
(blank) - Answer-Pharmakon, remedy, poison
