Across
- 2. A reason not to take the medicine.
- 4. Works only in one area.
- 6. How your body changes the medicine so it can be used or removed.
- 7. Why the medicine is taken.
- 8. A very dangerous allergic reaction.
- 10. A reason not to take the medicine.
- 12. When someone can’t stop using a drug even if it harms them.
- 14. How well a drug targets one spot.
- 15. How the body keeps things balanced.
- 19. Something that causes an allergy.
- 21. How the medicine spreads around your body
- 22. When the body reacts to the drug like it’s harmful.
- 23. An unexpected reaction.
- 25. How tightly a drug sticks to its target.
- 26. An unexpected reaction.
- 27. When the body feels bad without the drug.
Down
- 1. A drug that blocks a receptor.
- 3. How the medicine gets into your blood.
- 5. Why the medicine is taken.
- 9. How your body gets rid of the medicine.
- 11. What the medicine is meant to do.
- 13. The specific amount of a medicine taken at one time.
- 16. The “just right” level where the medicine works without being harmful.
- 17. A drug that turns a receptor on.
- 18. What the body does to the medicine.
- 20. A bigger first dose used to get the medicine working faster.
- 24. effect/ Works throughout the whole body.