Intrathecal, intracardiac, and intraosseous

injections can be performed only by a medical specialist.

Pharmacology

involves medicinal chemistry, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, molecular

Medications

are addictive or habit-forming when they are used in regulated and prescribed

quantities to stimulate or depress someone’s moods.

Side

effects, cautions, and contraindications are predictable effects caused by drug

toxicity.

Pharmacopeia

states drugs’ properties as well as recommended doses.

Pharmacokinetics studies absorption,

metabolism, and excretion of drugs over a period of time.

Although

oral administration is convenient to the patient, the drug is completely

destroyed by the digestive juices.

If

two medications produce less than an additive effect, they are called synergistic.

The

epiglottis does not close while a person is vomiting.

Vomiting

reflex can be stimulated by the cerebrum, especially when a person experiences

pain, smells something repulsive, or sees something ugly (for some patients it

can be blood).