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Pharmacology Midterm Ivy Tech Exam Practice Questions and
Answers
Medications determined to have an abuse potential? - Ans:✔✔-Controlled substances
In the number 625.3019, which number is in the tenths position? - Ans:✔✔-3
What is the Idiosyncratic action of a drug? - Ans:✔✔-Rare and unpredictable adverse reaction to drugs
What is a side effect of a drug? - Ans:✔✔-An expected but unintended effect of the drug
What is a contraindication? - Ans:✔✔-A reason against prescribing the drug
What does Metabolism mean? - Ans:✔✔-Drugs are chemically altered by the liver
What does absorption mean? - Ans:✔✔-The process by which a drug is taken into the body and moves
from the site of administration into the blood.
What does excretion mean? - Ans:✔✔-Process of elimination of drug molecules from the body, usually
by the urinary system
What does distribution mean? - Ans:✔✔-Process in which the circulatory system transports a drug
throughout the body and drug molecules eventually diffuse out of the bloodstream to the site of action
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Drugs that bind to a receptor and prevent a response are called? - Ans:✔✔-Antagonist
Agonist - Ans:✔✔-Drug molecule that binds to a receptor and causes a response
Synergist - Ans:✔✔-Drug that enhances the effect of another drug
Hypersensitivity - Ans:✔✔-Allergic response resulting from previous exposure to the drug or a similar
drug
What is solubility? - Ans:✔✔-Ability of a drug to be dissolved
What is the process of distribution? - Ans:✔✔-When drug molecules diffuse out of the blood stream to
the site of action
Duration of a drug is - Ans:✔✔-The time between onset and disappearance of drug effects
The term systemic effect means - Ans:✔✔-A drugs effects throughout the entire body
The term local effect means? - Ans:✔✔-Drugs that work at the site of action
The term onset means? - Ans:✔✔-The time between administration of a drug and the first appearance
of effects
A specialized agency of the united nations, publishes report annually that combines expert assessment
with a focus on a specific subject - Ans:✔✔-World Health Organization (WHO)
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FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
Pharmacology Midterm Ivy Tech Exam Practice Questions and
Answers
Medications determined to have an abuse potential? - Ans:✔✔-Controlled substances
In the number 625.3019, which number is in the tenths position? - Ans:✔✔-3
What is the Idiosyncratic action of a drug? - Ans:✔✔-Rare and unpredictable adverse reaction to drugs
What is a side effect of a drug? - Ans:✔✔-An expected but unintended effect of the drug
What is a contraindication? - Ans:✔✔-A reason against prescribing the drug
What does Metabolism mean? - Ans:✔✔-Drugs are chemically altered by the liver
What does absorption mean? - Ans:✔✔-The process by which a drug is taken into the body and moves
from the site of administration into the blood.
What does excretion mean? - Ans:✔✔-Process of elimination of drug molecules from the body, usually
by the urinary system
What does distribution mean? - Ans:✔✔-Process in which the circulatory system transports a drug
throughout the body and drug molecules eventually diffuse out of the bloodstream to the site of action
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Drugs that bind to a receptor and prevent a response are called? - Ans:✔✔-Antagonist
Agonist - Ans:✔✔-Drug molecule that binds to a receptor and causes a response
Synergist - Ans:✔✔-Drug that enhances the effect of another drug
Hypersensitivity - Ans:✔✔-Allergic response resulting from previous exposure to the drug or a similar
drug
What is solubility? - Ans:✔✔-Ability of a drug to be dissolved
What is the process of distribution? - Ans:✔✔-When drug molecules diffuse out of the blood stream to
the site of action
Duration of a drug is - Ans:✔✔-The time between onset and disappearance of drug effects
The term systemic effect means - Ans:✔✔-A drugs effects throughout the entire body
The term local effect means? - Ans:✔✔-Drugs that work at the site of action
The term onset means? - Ans:✔✔-The time between administration of a drug and the first appearance
of effects
A specialized agency of the united nations, publishes report annually that combines expert assessment
with a focus on a specific subject - Ans:✔✔-World Health Organization (WHO)
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