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| application of drugs for the purpose of dz prevention and tx of suffering. |
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| a chemical agent capable of producing biological responses within the body. |
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| an acquired hyperresponse of body defenses to a foreign substance. |
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| study of drug movement through the body |
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| the process involving the movement of a substance from its site of administration across the body membranes to circulating fluids. |
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| the transport of pharmocologic agents through the body |
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| an attraction to certain medication. |
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| drugs that bind reversibly to plasma proteins and are too large to cross capillary membranes |
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| drug-drug or drug-food interactions |
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| when one agent displaces another from plasma proteins. Displaced meds can accumulate and create adverse reactions. |
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| a barrier that inhibits many chemicals and meds from entering |
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| aka biotransformation, process of chemically converting a drug to a form that is usually more easily removed by the body |
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| side chains added to the drug during metabolism that makes the drug water soluble. |
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| drugs that can be completely metabolized to an inactive form before reaching the general circulation. |
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| process that removes drugs from the body |
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