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