G12 Health assignment 1 : Unit 9 Pharmacology

______________ is the science that studies everything related to drugs. What drugs are made of, how those work in the body, their effects and interactions. 

• pharmacy

• pharmacology

• pharmacokinetics

• biology

______________ is the study of what the body does to the drug. 

• chemistry

• pharmacy

• Pharmacokinetics

• pharmacology

______________ is the study of what the drug does to the body 

• Pharmacodynamics

• pharmocokinetics

• pharmacology

• pharmacy

The factors that influence pharmacodynamics, are 

• Patient age 

• Disease type 

• Pregnancy 

• Other drugs in the body

• all of the above

________ are used directly as a treatment, for example:they can treat a pain or cure an infection.they are the result of a drug or drugs being mixed, sometimes with an excipient or without it.

• drugs

• Medicines

• excipients

• chemicals

__________ are used when making medicines. it helps formulating, protecting or supporting a medicine. it make medicines safer for us to use.

• medicines

• chemicals

• drugs

• Excipients

Paracetamol  is an example of

• antihistamine

• pain killer

• NSAIDs

when the The drug is administered in the form of a cream or gel applied directly to the area that needs treatment. This is used when the area needed to be treated is easy to reach. It includes areas such as the skin, eyes, ears and nose. this process is called ______

• Oral

• Topical

• parenteral

a harmful and unwanted effect of a drug that happens alongside the desired effect 

• side-way

• side-effect

• side-by

an example of antibiotics is

• paracetamol

• peniciline

• Ibuprofen

• antihistamine