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