Principles of Pharmacology: Exam 1 2025
Questions and Answers
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
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
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, Alternative medicine includes natural or homeopathic remedies besides what? - ANSWER✔✔-
Electroshock therapy
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
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
Eating yogurt counteracts the GI side effect of what? - ANSWER✔✔-Diarrhea
Metabolism is also known as? - ANSWER✔✔-Bio transformation
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Questions and Answers
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
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
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, Alternative medicine includes natural or homeopathic remedies besides what? - ANSWER✔✔-
Electroshock therapy
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
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
Eating yogurt counteracts the GI side effect of what? - ANSWER✔✔-Diarrhea
Metabolism is also known as? - ANSWER✔✔-Bio transformation
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