MODULE 1

Question 1

pharmacokinetics

Answer 1

how a drug enters, moves through, and leaves the body

Question 2

drug

Answer 2

Any substance received by biological system that is not needed for nutriton purposes - influences the biological function of the organism

Question 3

pharmacology

Answer 3

the study of drugs and their interactions with living systems including effects, mechanism of actions, and uses.

Question 4

Historical Influences and Modern Pharmacology

Answer 4

1. Discoveries made by ancient civilizations
2. Role of Poisons in history
3. Influence of religion

Question 5

Ancient Greece

Answer 5

theophrastus wrote textbook on therapeutics that included opium poppy. serturner isolated morphine crystals from opium