Use and Action of Medicines
Use and Action of Medicines: Overview
This topic covers the uses of medicines including antibiotics, antifungals and antiseptics. We will gain knowledge about how these medicines cure the disease by studying their mode of action in the body.
Important Questions on Use and Action of Medicines
The purified antiserum produced in animals such as horses, plants and bacteria which is immunised by injections of toxins is called
Analgesics are medicines that are used to relieve pain.
Write the term analgesics?
Antitoxin is a special type of
What is Antitoxin.
The plasma from which the clotting proteins have been removed is called _____.
Define the term serology.
Write any one difference between serum and vaccine.
What is an Analgesic is also called as?
Which of the following ester is used as a medicine?
Analgesics are medicines that are used .....
Penicillin is obtained from a fungus, the scientific name of which is _____. (Mention both genus and species)
Streptomycin interferes with the cell wall formation of bacteria.
Which of the followings are the sources antibiotics?
The antibiotic that was discovered first.
Penicillin is
Name the following.
The drug based on arsenic compound, produced in 1910 which killed germs of syphilis.
Alexander Fleming coined the term "antibiotic" for substances like penicillin.
Analgesics are also known as painkillers.
Define drugs and give examples.
