Principles of Pharmacology: Exam 1
with full questions and correct
answers
What is one way to counteract the GI side effects of constipation(what change in diet?) - Correct
Answer: Fiber
What organ is most commonly responsible for the excretion of medication from your body? - Correct
Answer: Kidney
What drugs can pass through the blood-placental barrier to harm the fetus? - Correct Answer: Alcohol
and cocaine
What intended action delays clotting? - Correct Answer: Coumadin
A drug that is given orally but acts in another area is called what? - Correct Answer: Systemic
A unique reaction to a drug is called? - Correct Answer: Idiosyncrasy
What route has the quickest absorption into the bloodstream? - Correct Answer: Intravenous
Name a diagnostic drug? - Correct Answer: Barium
What is the source of barbiturates? - Correct Answer: Synthetic
Is estrogen or flu vaccine a replacement drug - Correct Answer: Estrogen
Alternative medicine includes natural or homeopathic remedies besides what? - Correct Answer:
Electroshock therapy
, What is the Ebers Papyrus? - Correct Answer: An Egyptian medical document written in the 1550 BCE.
Name a drug that is prophylactic drug - Correct Answer: Flu vaccine
Name a palliative drug - Correct Answer: Fever reducer
Name a replacement drug - Correct Answer: Synthroid
Name a destructive drug - Correct Answer: Antibiotic
What drugs causes birth defects? - Correct Answer: Teratogenic
What term means "to not excrete drugs effectively"? - Correct Answer: cumulation
True/False is isolation part of the stages of the drug cycle? - Correct Answer: False
The rate of medication absorption is affected by what? - Correct Answer: Amount of food in the
stomach, patient's age, concentration of medication, and pH of medication
Routes through which medications are excreted from that body include what? - Correct Answer:
Kidneys, lungs, bile, and breast milk
One system of liver damage caused by the effect of medication is what? - Correct Answer: Jaundice
Eating yogurt counteracts the GI side effect of what? - Correct Answer: Diarrhea
Metabolism is also known as? - Correct Answer: Bio transformation
with full questions and correct
answers
What is one way to counteract the GI side effects of constipation(what change in diet?) - Correct
Answer: Fiber
What organ is most commonly responsible for the excretion of medication from your body? - Correct
Answer: Kidney
What drugs can pass through the blood-placental barrier to harm the fetus? - Correct Answer: Alcohol
and cocaine
What intended action delays clotting? - Correct Answer: Coumadin
A drug that is given orally but acts in another area is called what? - Correct Answer: Systemic
A unique reaction to a drug is called? - Correct Answer: Idiosyncrasy
What route has the quickest absorption into the bloodstream? - Correct Answer: Intravenous
Name a diagnostic drug? - Correct Answer: Barium
What is the source of barbiturates? - Correct Answer: Synthetic
Is estrogen or flu vaccine a replacement drug - Correct Answer: Estrogen
Alternative medicine includes natural or homeopathic remedies besides what? - Correct Answer:
Electroshock therapy
, What is the Ebers Papyrus? - Correct Answer: An Egyptian medical document written in the 1550 BCE.
Name a drug that is prophylactic drug - Correct Answer: Flu vaccine
Name a palliative drug - Correct Answer: Fever reducer
Name a replacement drug - Correct Answer: Synthroid
Name a destructive drug - Correct Answer: Antibiotic
What drugs causes birth defects? - Correct Answer: Teratogenic
What term means "to not excrete drugs effectively"? - Correct Answer: cumulation
True/False is isolation part of the stages of the drug cycle? - Correct Answer: False
The rate of medication absorption is affected by what? - Correct Answer: Amount of food in the
stomach, patient's age, concentration of medication, and pH of medication
Routes through which medications are excreted from that body include what? - Correct Answer:
Kidneys, lungs, bile, and breast milk
One system of liver damage caused by the effect of medication is what? - Correct Answer: Jaundice
Eating yogurt counteracts the GI side effect of what? - Correct Answer: Diarrhea
Metabolism is also known as? - Correct Answer: Bio transformation
