Dr. Levy
Across
- 2. Place where metabolism frequently occurs
- 7. Extent of drug absorption or how much of the drug will reach the circulation
- 8. The elimination of drugs from the body
- 10. How the drug gets into the body
- 12. Biologic transformation of a drug
- 13. route by which the drug is absorbed into the circulation via oral or gastric mucosa or the small intestine.
- 14. Effect of 2 drugs that are administered together that have greater effects together than they would apart
- 16. Decreasing response to repeated drug doses
- 18. Study of drugs movement into, within, and out of the body
- 19. metabolism of a drug and its passage from the liver into the circulation
- 21. The time a drug concentration is sufficient to elicit a therapeutic response
- 22. The use of drugs and the clinical indications for drugs to prevent and treat diseases
- 24. Ratio of the rate of the elimination of a drug to the concentration in ab biological fluid
- 27. What the drug does to the body
- 28. Cancer- causing effects
- 30. Lowest blod level
- 31. 2 drugs with the same bioavailability and concentration of active ingredients
- 32. The time it takes for one-half of the original amount of a drug to be removed from the body
Down
- 1. Therapy given to prevent an illness during a planned event
- 3. Main organ for excretion
- 4. Ratio of a drug's toxic level to the level that provides therapeutic benefits
- 5. Drug effects are opposite of each other
- 6. Route by which a drug is administered intravenously, intramuscularly, subcutaneously etc.
- 9. The transport of a drug by the blood stream to its site of action
- 11. Fetal defects due to medications
- 15. The time it takes for the drug to elicit a therapeutic response
- 17. Any characteristic of the patient especially a disease state that makes the use of a given medication dangerous for the patient
- 20. Unique protective capillary system in the CNS
- 23. The study of natural (plant and animal) drug sources
- 25. Physiologic or psychological need for a drug
- 26. The physiologic reaction of the body to the drug
- 29. Highest blood level