PHARMACOLOGY 10TH EDITION
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION TEST 2026 FULL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
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◉ Until the end of the 19th century, most medicines came from.
Answer: Naturally occurring fresh plants, including herbs and
flowers.
◉ Examples of natural medications used in the 19th century.
Answer: Morphine, marijuana, cardiac glycosides and heparin
◉ Drugs. Answer: Substances or chemical agents that affect
biological or living systems
◉ Drugs and physiological responses relationship. Answer: Drugs do
not create new physiological responses. They alter normal processes
either by stimulating or depressing the function of the cell.
◉ Biologics. Answer: agents naturally produced in an animal or
human body
, ◉ Examples of biologics. Answer: vaccines, blood and blood
components, antibodies, and interferon
◉ Examples of alternative drug therapy. Answer: Herbs, vitamins,
minerals, dietary supplements, natural extracts
◉ 5 major subgroups of pharmacology. Answer: Pharmacokinetics,
pharmacodynamics, pharmacotherapeutics, pharmacogenetics,
toxicology
◉ Pharmacokinetics. Answer: the study of drug movement
throughout the body
◉ 4 major steps of pharmacokinetics. Answer: absorption,
distribution, metabolism, excretion
◉ Phamacodynamics. Answer: The action a drug has on a specific
target of action in the body, including mechanism of action, receptor
interactions, dose-response relationship, and therapeutic and toxic
reactions.
◉ Pharmacotherapeutics. Answer: The study of how drugs may be
best used in the treatment of a specific disease.