Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam
(PTCE) Questions and Answers.
Apothecary -
\Latin term for Pharmacist, a place where drugs are sold
Bloodletting -
\A practice of draining blood, believed to release illness
Caduceus -
\A staff that belonged to Hermes, a Greek God, two entwined snakes and two wings at
the top
Opioid -
\Any agent that binds to opioid receptors
Opium -
\An analgesic that is made from the poppy plant
Dogma -
\A principle or set of principles laid down by authority that are incontrovertibly true
Hippocratic oath -
\An oath taken by physicians concerning ethics and practice of medicine
Inpatient pharmacies -
\Pharmacists in hospitals or other institutional settings
Laudanum -
\A mixture of opium and alcoholic that treated illness in the 1800s
Leeches -
\A segmented worm that has suckers and attaches itself to the hosts skin and engorges
on the hosts blood
Maggots -
\Flies that eat dead tissues, used in medicine to clean wounds, without responding to
antibiotics
Pharmacist -
\Person who dispenses drugs and counsels patients on medication use and any
interactions it may have with food or other drugs
Pharmacy -
, \A place where drugs are sold
Pharmacy clerk -
\Person who assist the pharmacist at the front counter of the pharmacy who accepts
payment for medications
PTCB -
\Pharmacy Technician Certification Board; issues a national exam for pharmacy
technicians
Shaman -
\A person who holds a high place of honor in a tribe as a healer and spiritual mediator
Medicine -
\The science and art dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention,
alleviation, or cure of disease
Staff of Asclepius -
\The symbol of the medical profession; it is a wingless staff with one snake wrapped
around it
Trephining -
\A practice of making an opening in the head to allow the disease to leave the body
Aristole -
\Greek scientist, philosopher
Asclepius -
\Greek god of healing and medicine
Bacon, Roger -
\English scientist responsible for scientific methods
Crick, Francis & Watson James -
\Discoverer of the molecular structure of DNA, the double helix
Domagk, Gerhard -
\Developed sulfonamides and synthetic antibiotics
Fleming, Alexander -
\Discovered penicillin, first antibiotic
Galen, Claudius -
\Greek physician
Hippocrates -
(PTCE) Questions and Answers.
Apothecary -
\Latin term for Pharmacist, a place where drugs are sold
Bloodletting -
\A practice of draining blood, believed to release illness
Caduceus -
\A staff that belonged to Hermes, a Greek God, two entwined snakes and two wings at
the top
Opioid -
\Any agent that binds to opioid receptors
Opium -
\An analgesic that is made from the poppy plant
Dogma -
\A principle or set of principles laid down by authority that are incontrovertibly true
Hippocratic oath -
\An oath taken by physicians concerning ethics and practice of medicine
Inpatient pharmacies -
\Pharmacists in hospitals or other institutional settings
Laudanum -
\A mixture of opium and alcoholic that treated illness in the 1800s
Leeches -
\A segmented worm that has suckers and attaches itself to the hosts skin and engorges
on the hosts blood
Maggots -
\Flies that eat dead tissues, used in medicine to clean wounds, without responding to
antibiotics
Pharmacist -
\Person who dispenses drugs and counsels patients on medication use and any
interactions it may have with food or other drugs
Pharmacy -
, \A place where drugs are sold
Pharmacy clerk -
\Person who assist the pharmacist at the front counter of the pharmacy who accepts
payment for medications
PTCB -
\Pharmacy Technician Certification Board; issues a national exam for pharmacy
technicians
Shaman -
\A person who holds a high place of honor in a tribe as a healer and spiritual mediator
Medicine -
\The science and art dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention,
alleviation, or cure of disease
Staff of Asclepius -
\The symbol of the medical profession; it is a wingless staff with one snake wrapped
around it
Trephining -
\A practice of making an opening in the head to allow the disease to leave the body
Aristole -
\Greek scientist, philosopher
Asclepius -
\Greek god of healing and medicine
Bacon, Roger -
\English scientist responsible for scientific methods
Crick, Francis & Watson James -
\Discoverer of the molecular structure of DNA, the double helix
Domagk, Gerhard -
\Developed sulfonamides and synthetic antibiotics
Fleming, Alexander -
\Discovered penicillin, first antibiotic
Galen, Claudius -
\Greek physician
Hippocrates -
