Pharmacy Terms
Across
- 3. an inactive substance that the patient believes is a medication but that has no pharmacologic effect
- 4. effect of a drug in preventing infection or disease
- 7. a molecule or molecular structure often found on the surfaces of pathogens
- 9. consumer protection agency
- 11. proposed that disease was caused by natural rather than supernatural causes
- 12. the process whereby a drug increases the concentration of certain enzymes that affect the pharmacologic response to another drug
- 13. a fatty molecule that is an important constituent of cell membranes
Down
- 1. an overpowering desire or need to continue taking the drug in order to function
- 2. a drug that binds to a particular receptor site and triggers the cell's response in a manner similar to the action of the body's own chemical messenger
- 5. pharmacy technician national certification exam
- 6. a reaction between two or more drugs or between a drug and food, beverage, supplement
- 8. the study of how the body affects drugs
- 10. drug that may be sold without a prescription