INTRODUCTION TO PHARMACOLOGY
1) Define Pharmacology?
A) Pharmacology is a science that deals with drugs. It includes a detailed study of the history, properties, and physiological effects, mechanism of action, absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and uses of drugs.
2) Define drug?
A) A drug is defined as any substance which is used to cure, diagnose or prevent a disease.
PHARMACOLOGICAL TERMS
1) What is pharmacodynamics?
A) What the drug does to the body.
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Pharmacodyanmics which deals with biochemical and physiological effects of drugs and also their mechanism of action.
2) What is pharmacokinetics?
A) What the body does to the drug.
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Pharmacokinetics which deals with the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of drugs.
3) Define therapeutics?
A) Therapeutics which is concerned with the use of a drug for curing diseases and reviling their symptoms.
4) What is clinical pharmacology?
A) Clinical pharmacology which is the scientific study of drugs in man. The efficacy and safety of drug is studied in patients and healthy volunteers
5) What is chemotherapy?
Chemotherapy which deals with the effects of drugs on micro-organisms and parasites which occur in a living organism. It also includes the treatment of cancer.
6) What is toxicology?
Toxicology which deals with poisonous effects of, drugs, detection of poisoning and its treatment.
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