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Drug Compounding
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D004339 |
[The preparation, mixing, and assembly of a drug. (From Remington, The Science and Practice of Pharmacy, 19th ed, p1814).
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Drug Contamination
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D004340 |
[The presence of organisms, or any foreign material that makes a drug preparation impure.
, The addition of less desirable substance to the drug preparation.
, The presence of chemical substance other than the desired pharmaceutical compound manufactured.
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Drug Costs
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D016527 |
[The amount that a health care institution or organization pays for its drugs. It is one component of the final price that is charged to the consumer (FEES, PHARMACEUTICAL or PRESCRIPTION FEES).
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Drug Delivery Systems
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D016503 |
[Systems for the delivery of drugs to target sites of pharmacological actions. Technologies employed include those concerning drug preparation, route of administration, site targeting, metabolism, and toxicity.
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Drug Design
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D015195 |
[The molecular designing of drugs for specific purposes (such as DNA-binding, enzyme inhibition, anti-cancer efficacy, etc.) based on knowledge of molecular properties such as activity of functional groups, molecular geometry, and electronic structure, and also on information cataloged on analogous molecules. Drug design is generally computer-assisted molecular modeling and does not include pharmacokinetics, dosage analysis, or drug administration analysis.
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Drug Development
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D000076722 |
[The entire process of bringing a new drug to the market. It includes both preclinical and clinical testing, and regulatory approval.
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Drug Discovery
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D055808 |
[The process of finding chemicals for potential therapeutic use.
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Drug Dosage Calculations
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D054796 |
[Math calculations done for preparing appropriate doses of medicines, taking into account conversions of WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Mistakes are one of the sources of MEDICATION ERRORS.
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Drug Elimination Routes
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D000084342 |
[Various processes through which administered drugs are discharged from the body.
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Drug Eruptions
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D003875 |
[Dermatoid drug eruption characterized by widespread erythematous macules and papules often associated with a mild fever and itch.
, Adverse cutaneous reactions caused by ingestion, parenteral use, or local application of a drug. These may assume various morphologic patterns and produce various types of lesions.
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Drug Evaluation
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D004341 |
[Any process by which toxicity, metabolism, absorption, elimination, preferred route of administration, safe dosage range, etc., for a drug or group of drugs is determined through clinical assessment in humans or veterinary animals.
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Drug Evaluation, Preclinical
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D004353 |
[Preclinical testing of drugs in experimental animals or in vitro for their biological and toxic effects and potential clinical applications.
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Drug Hypersensitivity
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D004342 |
[Immunologically mediated adverse reactions to medicinal substances used legally or illegally.
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Drug Hypersensitivity Syndrome
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D063926 |
[Severe drug eruption characterized by high fever, erythematous rash and inflammation of internal organ(s).
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Drug Implants
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D004343 |
[Small containers or pellets of a solid drug implanted in the body to achieve sustained release of the drug.
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Drug Incompatibility
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D004344 |
[The quality of not being miscible with another given substance without a chemical change. One drug is not of suitable composition to be combined or mixed with another agent or substance. The incompatibility usually results in an undesirable reaction, including chemical alteration or destruction. (Dorland, 27th ed; Stedman, 25th ed)
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Drug Industry
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D004345 |
[That segment of commercial enterprise devoted to the design, development, and manufacture of chemical products for use in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, disability, or other dysfunction, or to improve function.
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Drug Information Services
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D004346 |
[Services providing pharmaceutic and therapeutic drug information and consultation.
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Drug Interactions
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D004347 |
[The action of a drug that may affect the activity, metabolism, or toxicity of another drug.
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Drug Inverse Agonism
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D054314 |
[Phenomena and pharmaceutics of compounds that bind to the same receptor binding-site as an agonist (DRUG AGONISM) for that receptor but exerts the opposite pharmacological effect.
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