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Key Terms (Abrams Clinical Drug Therapy)
Questions and Correct Answers
Generic name

✓ ~~~ chemical or official name of the drug that is independent of the manufacturer
(eg. amoxicillin)




Brand (trade) name

✓ ~~~ manufacturers chosen name for a drug



Controlled Substance

✓ ~~~ drugs that are categorized by federal law according to therapeutic usefulness
and potential for abuse




Drug classifications

✓ ~~~ groups of medications that are categorized based according to their effects on
a particular body system, their therapeutic uses and their chemical characteristics




Over the counter (OTC) drugs

✓ ~~~ medications that are legally availabe without a prescription




Pharmacogenomics

✓ ~~~ study of how a persons genetic heritage can influence variable responses to
drugs; generally referring to polymorphisms that occur in a patient population such
as an ethnic group



Pharmacotherapy

, ✓ ~~~ use of drugs to prevent, diagnose or treat signs, symptoms and disease
processes



Prescription drugs

✓ ~~~ medications that are ordered in writing by a licensed health care provider




Prototype

✓ ~~~ an individual drug that represent a group of drugs; often the first drug of a
particular drug class that similar drugs are compared to




Pharmacokinetics

✓ ~~~ drug movement throughout the body (what the body does to the drug) to rech
sites of action, metabolism and excretion




Pharmacokinetics processes

✓ ~~~ Absorption
Distribution

Metabolism

Excretion




Absorption

✓ ~~~ time the drug enters the body to the time it enters the blood stream to be
circulated



Distribution

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