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What is the science dealing with the origin, nature, chemistry, effects, & uses of medications?
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Pharmacology
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What is the branch of pharmacology that deals w/ biological, biochemical, & economic features of natural medications & their constituents?
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Pharmacognosy
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What is the branch of pharmacology dealing w/ the preparation, dispensing, & proper use of medications?
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Pharmacy
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What is the study of the dosages of medicines & medications
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Posology
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What is the study of the action or effects of medications on living organisms?
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Pharmacodynamics
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What is the study of the uses of medications in the treatment of disease?
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Pharmacotherapeutics
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What is the study of poisons, their actions, their detection, & the treatment of the conditions produced by them called?
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Toxicology
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What is the science of treating disease by any method that will relieve pain, treat or cure diseases & infections, or prolong life called?
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Therapeutics
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What provides tests for medication identity, quality, strength, & purity?
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USP-NF
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What is the most widely used text/reference in American pharmacies?
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Remington: The Science & Practice of Pharmacy (blue bible) |
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What is the amount of medication to be administered referred to as
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Dose |
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A therapeutic dose is calculated on an average adult male of 24 yo who weighs approx. how many lbs?
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150 lbs
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What is the most common factor that influences the amount of medication to be given?
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Age |
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What is the most common method of administering meds?
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Oral
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What type of meds are administered by placing the med under the tongue?
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Sublingual
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What type of meds are administered by placing the med between the cheek & gum? |
Buccal
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What type of meds re introduced by injection?>
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Parenteral |
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What is the type of med injected just below the skin's cutaneous layers?
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Subcutaneous
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What type of med is injected w/in the dermis layer of the skin?
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Intradermal
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What type of med is introduced directly into the vein?
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Intravenous
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What is the process called y which a med is converted into a fine spray by the use of compressed gas?
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Nebulization
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How many important steps to follow are there when administering medication to a patient to prevent errors?
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6
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What is any chemical substance called that has an effect on living tissue but is not used as a food?
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Medication |
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Medications are classified according to set criteria and fall into 3 specific areas: general, chemical, and what else?
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Therapeutic
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What are medications called the cause shrinkage of the skin and mucous membranes?
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Astringents
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What are bland or fatty substances called that may be applied to the skin to make it more pliable and soft?
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Emollients
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What are agents called that inhibit or suppress the act of coughing?
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Antitussives
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What can be used to reduce congestion and the swelling of mucous membranes?
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Nasal Decongestants
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What substance released by most cells distributed in connective tissues usually near blood vessels promotes some of the reactions associated with inflammation and allergies such as asthma and hay fever?
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Histamine
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What are used to counteract hyperacidity in the stomach?
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Antacids
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Normally oral meds should not be taken within how many hours of taking an antacid?
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2
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What suppress the growth of microorganisms?
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Antiseptics
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What are agents called that are used to disinfect inanimate objects and are primarily germicidal in their action?
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Disinfectants
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What is the standard by which all other antiseptic, disinfectant, and germicidal agents are measured in effectiveness?
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Phenol
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What are a group of semi-synthetic derivatives of cephalosporin C called which is an antimicrobial agent of fungal origin?
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Cephalosporin's
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In what year were Tetracyclines introduced which were the 1st truly broad-spectrum antibiotics?
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1948
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What are a group of meds that share chemical, antimicrobial, pharmacologic, & toxic characteristics, and that are effective against most gram-positive & gram-negative organisms?
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Aminoglycosides
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What are antibiotics constituting a large group of bacteriostatic agents that inhibit protein synthesis known as?
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Macrolides
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What type of medications facilitate the passage and elimination of feces from the colon and rectum?
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Laxatives
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What are agents that increase the rate of urine formation called?
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Diuretics
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What type of meds relieve pain w/out producing unconsciousness or impairing mental capacities?
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Non-narcotic analgesics
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What are used to relieve or reduce fevers?
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Antipyretics
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What are mainly used as sedative-hypnotics, anticonvulsants, anesthetics for short anesthesia, and may be used in combination w/ analgesics to enhance their analgesic effect?
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Barbiturates
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Tranquilizers & mood modifiers are the 2 primary groups of what agents?
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Psychotherapeutic
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What are used to produce constriction of the blood vessels with consequent rise in blood pressure?
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Vasoconstrictors
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What taken in high doses is believed to prevent the common cold, and to treat asthma, atherosclerosis, wounds, schizophrenia, and cancer?
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Vitamin C
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What type of medications produce a rhythmic contraction of the uterus?
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Oxytocics
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In what year did the World Health Org (WHO) declare the global eradication of naturally occurring smallpox?
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1980
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What is the study and science of weights and measures called?
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Metrology
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What is the official system of weights & measures used by Navy Pharmacy Dept for weighing & calculating pharmaceutical preparations?
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Metric System
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What is the relationship of one quantity to another quantity of like value?
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Ratio
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What is the expression of equality of 2 ratios called?
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Proportion
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What are aromatic, sweetened hydroalcoholic solutions containing medicinal substances called?
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Elixirs
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What are coarse dispersions comprised of finely divided insoluble material suspended in a liquid medium called?
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Suspensions
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What are semisolid, fatty, or oily preparations of medicinal substances called?
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Ointments
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What are solid bodies intended to introduce medicinal substances into various orifices of the body called?
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Suppositories
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What are gelatin shells containing solid or liquid medicinal substances to be taken orally called?
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Capsules
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What is used for mixing & measuring various medicinal ingredients?
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Enrlenmeyer flask
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What are conical or cylindrical clear glass containers graduated in specified quantities that are used to measure liquids volumetrically?
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Graduates
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What type of incompatibilities occur when agents antagonistic to one another are prescribed together?
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Therapeutic
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What type of incompatibilities are often called pharmaceutical incompatibilities and are evidence by the failure of the meds to combine properly?
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Physical
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What is any condition called which makes a particular treatment or procedure inadvisable?
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Contraindication
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What is the most important tool used by the pharmacy?
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Prescription
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The DoD Prescription (DD Form 1289) along with the Polyprescription using what form are the two standardized forms used for prescription?
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NAVMED 6710/6
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DD Form 1289
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DoD Prescription
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What part of the prescription lists the name & quantity of the med to be used?
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Inscription
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What part of the prescription gives the directions for the patient?
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Signa
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How many times should the container labels used in filling prescriptions be verified? |
3
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How many schedules (categories) related to a medications potential for abuse, medical usefulness, and degree f dependency, if abused did the Controlled Substance Act of 1970 establish?
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5
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Prescriptions for schedule II substances can never be ordered with refills and in most cases must be filled within how many days of the date originally written?
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7 days |
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Prescriptions must be filled w/in 30 days of the date written and may be refilled up to 5x w/in how many months for Schedule III substances?
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6
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What type of substances are primarily antitussives or antidiarrheal?
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Schedule V
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At least how often, or more frequently if necessary, the Controlled Substances Inventory Board (CSIB) takes an unannounced inventory of controlled substances?
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Quarterly
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