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Pharmaceutical Sciences Homework Guide

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Pharmaceutical Sciences Homework Guide

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HOMEWORK 12

I.​ Fill the blankets


1.​ The pharmaceutical sciences may ………… (subdivide) into several specialties.
2.​ A pharmaceutical product is intended for human use or as veterinary products …………..…
(administer) to food-producing animals.
3.​ It may be a synthetic, semi-synthetic, or ………….… (natural) occurring compound or mixture of
compounds.
4.​ Most drugs interact with a part of the body to ………………. (alteration) an existing
physiological or biochemical process.
5.​ The ………………..… (successful) of a new drug depends on how close it comes to meeting
these objectives.
6.​ Quality control is not confined to laboratory operations but must be involved in all decisions
………………..… (concern) the quality of the product.
7.​ “Quality assurance” ĐBCL is a wide-ranging concept covering all matters that individually or
collectively ………………….. (influent) the quality of a product.
8.​ It is the totality of the arrangements made with the object of ensuring that pharmaceutical
products are of the quality required (which/that is required) for their ……………… (intend) use.
9.​ The earliest … ……………….(know) prescriptions date back to at least 2700 BC and
………….… (write) by the Sumerians ………………. (live) in the land between the Euphrates
and Tigris rivers.
10.​Indeed, the ………….… (great) physicians in Rome were nearly all Greek.
11.​Galen introduced many ………….. (previous) unknown drugs, and was the first ………….
(define) a drug as anything that acts on the body to bring about a change.
12.​The first …………….. (private) owned drug stores were established by the Arabs in Baghdad in
the eight century.
13.​International ……………………. (cooperate) between pharmacists has a long history.
14.​International congress continued to ………………… (hold) every few years in different
countries, but there was no formal mechanism for international contact.
15.​The Papyrus Ebers is a ……………… (collect) of around 800 prescriptions.
16.​In some countries, developments took place on a regional ………………….. (base).
17.​Only after the establishment of the new Italian Kingdom in 1870 were uniform …………………..
(arrange) were established across Italy.
18.​Life is the reflection of a series of continuous ……………… (biochemistry) processes.
19.​All living organisms ………………….. (compose) of numerous organic substances.
20.​Evolution of life begins from one of single organic compound ……… (call) a nucleotide.
21.​Chemistry …………… (play) a major role in pharmaceutical advances, forensic science and
modern agriculture.

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22.​Aspirin is …………..… (probable) the most popular and widely used analgesic drug because of
its structural simplicity and low cost.
23.​To have a proper understanding and ……………… (know) of these drugs and their behavior, we
have to learn chemistry.
24.​Drugs having an ester functionality, could be quite ………. (stable) in the presence of moisture.
25.​The interactions between a drug and the body are ……….… (convenient) divided into two
classes.
26.​Very large drugs must ……………….. (administer) directly into the compartment where they
have their effect.
27.​People who ……………….. (special) in medical pharmacology can work as pharmacologist or
researchers for pharmacological companies.
28.​Electrostatic bonding is much …………..… (commonly) than covalent bonding in drug receptor
interactions.
29.​A useful drug must have the necessary properties ………………..… (transport) from its site of
administration to its site of action.
30.​Drugs much larger than MW 1000 will not diffuse …………………….. (ready) between
compartments of the body.
31.​It is easy to see the importance of these…………………….……… interactions in the practice of
medicine. (Pharmacology)
32.​If patient………………….….. two drugs and one of them increases the effect of the other it
is……….………. that an overdose may occur. ( Take/ Possibility).
33.​If the action of drug……………. It may cease to have any…………. Use because of under
dosage. (reduce/ therapy)
34.​The risk that a pharmacological interaction will appear increases as a function of the number of
drugs……… to a patient at the same time. (administer)
35.​. It is also possible for interactions…………… outside an organism before………… of the drugs
has taken place (occur/ administer)
36.​. …………… in the effect of a drug are caused by differences in the absorption,
transport,……….. , metabolism or excretion of one or both of the drugs compared with the
expected behavior of each drug when taken individually. (modify/ distribute)
37.​. ……….. of drugs is the process through which the body converts drugs into forms that are more
or less or that are ……………… for the body to eliminate through the kidneys. (metabolize/
easy)

II. Rewrite the sentences bellow


38.​She takes medicines three times a day.
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39.​They are suffering from bird flu. (cúm gia cầm).

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40.​Vietnam has imported a lot of medicines.
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41.​A drug is any substance. It is used in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a disease.
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42.​A dietary supplement can be a product. It is intended to supplement the diet that bears or contains
one of more of the dietary ingredients.
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43.​The knowledge is tremendously increased in the last hundred years. It helped drug substance to be
used in medicine.
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44.​Medicine or drugs are chemicals, either organic or inorganic. We take them for the treatment of
various ailments.
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45.​All drugs are chemicals, and pharmacy is a subject. It deals with the study of various aspects of
drugs.
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46.​As all drugs are chemicals, and pharmacy is mainly about the study of various aspects of drugs.
These aspects include manufacture, storage, action and toxicities, metabolisms and managements.
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47.​Toxicology is the branch of pharmacology. It deals with the undesirable effects of chemicals on
living systems, from individual cells to complex ecosystems.
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48.​ The actions of body on the drugs are called pharmacokinetic processes. Pharmacokinetic processes
govern the absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination of drugs.
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49.​A drug is any substances. It is used in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a disease.
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50.​A dietary supplement can be a product. It is intended to supplement the diet that bears or contains
one of more of the dietary ingredients
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51.​Injecting calcium into vein can be extremely dangerous.
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52.​Buying more and better food is wiser.
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53.​We shouldn’t treat large bruises with penicillin or any other antibiotic.
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54.​. In nearly every case of anemia, iron pills will do better than vitamin B12 and liver extract.
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55.​We shouldn’t use penicillin with streptomycin for colds.
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56.​Great care must be taken in the choice and use of antibiotics.
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57.​Drug abuse is a serious problem. It may destroy the abuser’s health and life.

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58.​Many people find it hard to swallow a tablet or capsule


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59.​Drugs are chemicals. They affect the human body.


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60.​Using these medicines to speed up child birth is very dangerous.
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61.​Patients are being treated for certain diseases. They appear to be at an increased risk of
experiencing a drug interaction.
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62.​Antibiotics are used no cure all for injections. Antibiotics only clear infections caused by bacteria
and some parasites.
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63.​Ethnobotanists study groups of people and their medicines. They travel to many places.
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64.​The ethnobotanists bring the plants back to the laboratories. Other scientists extract and study the
drugs in them.
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65.​Tea is one of the most popular drinks all over the world. It is also a strong medicinal herb.
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66.​There are several treatments. They are available to ease the symptoms of cold sores.
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67.​There is now also a newer treatment. It is based on the antiviral drug acyclovir
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68.​Malaria is complex. It is curable and preventable disease.
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69.​Ointments are soft and semisolid preparations. They are intended to be applied externally to the
body or to mucous membranes.
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70.​Ampicillin is a broad-spectrum penicillin. It kills many more kinds of bacteria than those are killed
by other penicillin.
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71.​By drinking lots of liquids, eating good food, and getting plenty of rest, we can treat minor
respiratory infections.
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72.​Healers in many countries all over the world use natural medicines.
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73.​Aloe vera is good for the skin. It can help minor burns, such as sunburn.
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74.​. When we often use some medicines for minor problems, they lose their power to fight dangerous
sicknesses.

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75.​Pharmacists and physicians are studying drugs from different plants to treat cancer.
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76.​. Because cachets have large size, we should immerse them in water for a few seconds.
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