RXRS 201: Midterm IMPORTANT terms
Analgesic - correct answer ✔✔Relieving pain
Anodyne - correct answer ✔✔relieving pain (less potent than analgesic)
Antibacterial - correct answer ✔✔Killing or preventing growth of bacteria
Anthelminthic - correct answer ✔✔Killing and expelling intestinal worms
Antimicrobial - correct answer ✔✔Killing microbes and bacteria
Antipyretic - correct answer ✔✔reduces fever
Antitussive - correct answer ✔✔relieves cough
Astringent - correct answer ✔✔Causing contraction of tissues and prevention of bleeding / secretion
Carminative - correct answer ✔✔Facilitating eructation of gas from stomach
Cathartic - correct answer ✔✔Powerful purgative
Demulcent - correct answer ✔✔Soothing and relieving irritation
Diuretic - correct answer ✔✔makes you pee
expectorant - correct answer ✔✔Increasing fluidity of bronchial secretions and thereby facilitating their
expulsion
, hypotensive - correct answer ✔✔reduces blood pressure
Perception-Altering - correct answer ✔✔Stimulates central nervous system
Substances cause departure from ordinary reality
• Distortions in perception
• Alterations in thought
• Variations in mood
• Creates a dreamlike state
• Shaman / guide to the spirit world required
Mood-Altering - correct answer ✔✔Stimulate brain reward pathways
• Highly prized substances due to effects
• Amicability
• Reduction of stress
• Feelings of liberation
• Shaman / guide to the spirit world not required
Euphoric - correct answer ✔✔producing an experience or affect of pleasure or excitement and intense
feeling of happiness
hallucinogens - correct answer ✔✔produces altered perceptions, sensations of space and time
psychedelic - correct answer ✔✔manifest a hidden but real aspect of the mind
Dissociative - correct answer ✔✔feelings of detachment from one's body; produce analgesia, amnesia,
and catalepsy
Analgesic - correct answer ✔✔Relieving pain
Anodyne - correct answer ✔✔relieving pain (less potent than analgesic)
Antibacterial - correct answer ✔✔Killing or preventing growth of bacteria
Anthelminthic - correct answer ✔✔Killing and expelling intestinal worms
Antimicrobial - correct answer ✔✔Killing microbes and bacteria
Antipyretic - correct answer ✔✔reduces fever
Antitussive - correct answer ✔✔relieves cough
Astringent - correct answer ✔✔Causing contraction of tissues and prevention of bleeding / secretion
Carminative - correct answer ✔✔Facilitating eructation of gas from stomach
Cathartic - correct answer ✔✔Powerful purgative
Demulcent - correct answer ✔✔Soothing and relieving irritation
Diuretic - correct answer ✔✔makes you pee
expectorant - correct answer ✔✔Increasing fluidity of bronchial secretions and thereby facilitating their
expulsion
, hypotensive - correct answer ✔✔reduces blood pressure
Perception-Altering - correct answer ✔✔Stimulates central nervous system
Substances cause departure from ordinary reality
• Distortions in perception
• Alterations in thought
• Variations in mood
• Creates a dreamlike state
• Shaman / guide to the spirit world required
Mood-Altering - correct answer ✔✔Stimulate brain reward pathways
• Highly prized substances due to effects
• Amicability
• Reduction of stress
• Feelings of liberation
• Shaman / guide to the spirit world not required
Euphoric - correct answer ✔✔producing an experience or affect of pleasure or excitement and intense
feeling of happiness
hallucinogens - correct answer ✔✔produces altered perceptions, sensations of space and time
psychedelic - correct answer ✔✔manifest a hidden but real aspect of the mind
Dissociative - correct answer ✔✔feelings of detachment from one's body; produce analgesia, amnesia,
and catalepsy
