Pharmacology Flash Cards

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Drug interactions in which the effect of a combination of two or more drugs with similar actions is equivalent to the sum of the individual effects of the same drugs given alone

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Additive effects

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any undesirable occurrence related to administering or failing to administer a prescribed medicaiton

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Adverse Drug event

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any unexpected, unintended, undesired, or excessive response to a medication given at therapeutic dosages (as opposed to overdose)

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adverse drug reaction

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A general term for any undesirable effects that are a direct response to one or more drugs.

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Adverse effects

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A drug that binds to and stimulates the activity of one or more receptors in the body.

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Agonist

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An immunologic hypersensitivity reaction resulting from the unusual sensitivity of a patient to a particular medication; a type of adverse drug event

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allergic reaction

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A drug that binds to and inhibits the activity of one or more receptors in the body. Antagonists are also called inhibitors.

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Antagonist

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Drug interactions in which the effect of a combination of two or more drugs is less than the sum of the individual effects of the same drugs given alone (1 + 1 equals less than 2); it is usually caused by an antagonizing (blocking or reducing) effect of one drug on another.

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antagonistic effect

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A measure of the extent of drug absorption for a given drug and route (from 0% to 100%).

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Bioavailability

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One or more biochemical reactions involving a parent drug; occurs mainly in the liver and produces a metabolite that is either inactive or active. Also known as metabolism.

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Biotransformation