Pharmacology Crossword

3. Requires cellular energy to move drugs from low to high concentrations.
4. To replenish or substitute for missing substances in the body.
5. Occurs when a patient's immune system identifies a drug as a dangerous foreign substance that must be destroyed.
8. Used for end-stage or terminal diseases to make the patient comfortable.
10. A harmful undesirable response.
12. A drug's ability to initiate a response after binding with the receptor.
13. Does not treat the cause of the disease but maintains other threatened body systems.
14. The relationship between a drug's desired theraputic effects and its adverse effects.
15. Occurs when a patient has a decreased response to a drug overtime.
18. A drug that interacts with receptors.
19. Based on practical experience rather than pure scientific data.

1. Used for patients with chronic conditions that don't resolve.
2. Large number of patients in the study receive the drug.
6. A drug's desired effect.
7. Drugs administered through gases by inhalation.
9. The relative amount of a drug required to produce a desired response.
11. The study of drug mechanisms that produce biochemical or physiological changes in the body.
16. Injection of drugs through an IV.
17. Occurs when two drugs that produce the same effect are given together and one drug enhances the other drug.
18. When the combined response of two drugs is less than the response produced by either drug alone.