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Potency correct answer: the AMOUNT of drug necessary to produce the desired effect Efficacy correct answer: the ABILITY of the drug to achieve the desired effect What is the FDA? When was it empowered? What was it empowered to enforce? What are the primary responsibilities of the FDA? correct answer: What are the four (4) processes involved with the movement of drugs inside the body? correct answer: 1. Absorption 2. Distribution 3. Metabolism 4. Excretion How does the route...

4 processes of pharmacokinetics correct answer: 1. Absorption 2. Distribution 3. Metabolism 4. Excretion What drugs that are administered take the longest to be absorbed? correct answer: orally (PO) What drugs that are administered are instantly absorbed? correct answer: intravenously (IV) Gastric acidity correct answer: promotes disintegration and dissolution of most drugs What three major factors determine distribution? correct answer: 1. blood flow to tissues 2. ability o...

NURS 316/NURS 316 - Unit quiz 5, 6, 7.Exam (elaborations) NURS 316/NURS 316 - Unit quiz 5, 6, 7. Exam (elaborations)

NSAIDs interfere with the production of correct answer: prostaglandins Opioids stimulate what correct answer: opioid receptors what are the categoires of pain medication correct answer: Opioid Analgesics Non-Opioid Analgesics Opioid Antagonists what chemicals does body produce in response to pain correct answer: Substance P Prostaglandins Bradykinins Histamine what are the bodys natural pain killers correct answer: Serotonin Enkephalins Endorphins Mu receptor is stimul...

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Normal Microbes Beneficial Effects correct answer: competing for nutrients produced substances that affect invading microbes affecting growth conditions Inhibition of cell wall synthesis correct answer: penecillins cephalosporins carbapenems misc. Inhibition of protein synthesis (Translation) correct answer: Aminoglycosides Tetracyclines Oxazolidinones Macrolides Disruption of plasma membrane correct answer: azoles and polyenes Inhibition of nucleic acid synthesis (replic...

central nervous systembrain and spinal cord peripheral nervous systemthe sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system to the rest of the body sensory neurons (afferent)neurons that carry incoming information from the sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord motor neurons (efferent)neurons that carry outgoing information from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles and glands cerebral cortexouter layer of the cerebrum, function of memory, reasoning, sensation...