WCU Pharmacology Exam 1
Drug categories - ✔️✔️analgesics, anti-inflammatories, antifungal, antibiotics
Principle organ for drug excretion - ✔️✔️kidney
Where does metabolism mostly occur? - ✔️✔️liver
Examples of internal administration - ✔️✔️inhalation, IV, orally, rectally, intradermal,
intramuscular, sublingually
Pharmacogenomics - ✔️✔️study of genetic influences on response to drugs
Pharmacoepidemiology - ✔️✔️study of the effect of drugs at population level
Pharmacoeconomics - ✔️✔️Quantifying in economic terms the cost and benefit used
therapeutically
Legal control of pharmaceuticals - ✔️✔️1. DEA- Drug Enforcement Agency
2. FDA- Food and Drug Administration
Controlled substance - ✔️✔️drug that has the potential for abuse and addiction and
thus is regulated by law
Drug - ✔️✔️A chemical substance (other than a nutrient or essential dietary ingredient)
which is taken to produce a biological effect
Medicine - ✔️✔️a chemical preparation containing 1 or more drugs
Biotechnology - ✔️✔️Agents being produced by genetic engineering
-Emerged in 1980s
sub-groups in pharmacology - ✔️✔️1. Pharmacogenomics
2. Pharmacoepidemiology
3. Pharmacoeconomics
Bioequivalence - ✔️✔️having the same composition
dispensing - ✔️✔️packaging and labeling prescription medications
*MULTIPLE DOSES*
administration - ✔️✔️direct application of a SINGLE dose
Drug categories - ✔️✔️analgesics, anti-inflammatories, antifungal, antibiotics
Principle organ for drug excretion - ✔️✔️kidney
Where does metabolism mostly occur? - ✔️✔️liver
Examples of internal administration - ✔️✔️inhalation, IV, orally, rectally, intradermal,
intramuscular, sublingually
Pharmacogenomics - ✔️✔️study of genetic influences on response to drugs
Pharmacoepidemiology - ✔️✔️study of the effect of drugs at population level
Pharmacoeconomics - ✔️✔️Quantifying in economic terms the cost and benefit used
therapeutically
Legal control of pharmaceuticals - ✔️✔️1. DEA- Drug Enforcement Agency
2. FDA- Food and Drug Administration
Controlled substance - ✔️✔️drug that has the potential for abuse and addiction and
thus is regulated by law
Drug - ✔️✔️A chemical substance (other than a nutrient or essential dietary ingredient)
which is taken to produce a biological effect
Medicine - ✔️✔️a chemical preparation containing 1 or more drugs
Biotechnology - ✔️✔️Agents being produced by genetic engineering
-Emerged in 1980s
sub-groups in pharmacology - ✔️✔️1. Pharmacogenomics
2. Pharmacoepidemiology
3. Pharmacoeconomics
Bioequivalence - ✔️✔️having the same composition
dispensing - ✔️✔️packaging and labeling prescription medications
*MULTIPLE DOSES*
administration - ✔️✔️direct application of a SINGLE dose
