English in Pharmacy 3 Review

The most typical responsibility of a pharmacist is verifying doctors’ …………………. and dispensing the medication to the patient

• prescriptions

• either of them

• orders

• instructions

………… deals in the chemistry of drugs, their physical properties and nature

• Pharmaceutical Chemistry

• Pharmacology

• Pharmacognosy

• Biochemistry

………… is a written order by a physician, dentist, nurse practitioner, or other designated health professional for a medication to be dispensed by a pharmacy for administration to a patient

• medication order

• pharmacognosy

• practitioner

• script

The drug was first ………… in 1929.

• synthesized

• injected

• took

• gave

Aspirin is probably the most popular and widely used ………… drug because of its structural simplicity and low cost.

• analgesic

• synthetic

• chemical

• antiviral

In chemistry, a ………… is a substance that consists of two or more elements.

• compound

• tablet

• tract

• mixture

All medicines are ………… products.

• chemical

• physical

• home-made

• synthetic

Children are still dying in their millions from ………… diseases.

• parasitic

• synthetic

• isolated

• viral

The mathematical description of drug disposition (appearance and disappearance) in the body over time is called …………

• pharmacokinetics

• pharmacology

• pharmacy

• biostatistics

………… pharmacology concerns the study of the interaction of drugs and subcellular entities, such as DNA, RNA, and enzymes.

• molecular

• clinical

• applied

• toxicological