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Terms251-270
Term | Definition |
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Central Nervous System | Brain and Spinal Cord |
Parasympathetic nervous system | Slowing the heart, contricting the pupils, and relaxing the bowels during normal conditions. |
Sympathetic Nervous System | Stress or danger, Fight or flight |
Toxic | causing serious harm or death, relating to or containing a poison or toxin |
Sterilization | to kill all living microorganisms in something in order to make it incapable of ing infection or unable to reproduce |
Radioisotope | a form of chemical element isotope that is radioactive |
Arrhythmia | an irregulary heartbeat |
Antigen | Involved in allergic response- triggering the immune system |
Ceiling Effect | Further effect on pain above a particular dosage level. highest dose with effect. |
Physicians Desk Reference | Reprint of package inserts |
Paste | soft malleable consistancy |
Plaster | a strip of adhesive material, usually with a dressing attached, for sticking over a cut or wound |
Transderal | applied to skin as a patch |
Tonic | increases stregth and tone |
Topical | applied directly to the surface of the part of the body |
Oil | greasy liquid that doesnt dissolve in water |
Ampule | a small sealed glass container that holds a measured amount of a medical substance to be injected |
Dry powder inhaler | is a device that delivers medication to the lungs in the form of a dry powder |
Enteric coated tablet | dissolves in intestines like aspirin |
Solution | dissolving one substance in another |