Pharmacology

A drug that eases pain, fever and inflammation; a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug.

An abbreviation that can mean intradermal, identification, infectious disease or intellectual disability.

A rare, unpredictable and unusual response to a drug, whose cause is not known and which does not fit what the drug normally does.

An abbreviation for "injection" that ISMP says not to use; in line and procedure notes, IJ also means internal jugular vein.

A tricyclic antidepressant drug, also used for bedwetting in children.

The process of making a person protected against a disease, most often by giving a vaccine.

An antibody: a protein made by B cells that recognizes and helps destroy a specific germ or foreign substance.

A drug that lowers the activity of the immune system.

Treatment that uses or changes the body's immune system to fight disease.

A short form for intranasal, meaning given into the nose.

To make something, such as an enzyme, drug, hormone or germ, stop working.

A safety step in which a second qualified person checks a medication on their own, without being told the expected result, before it is given.

A reason to use a certain drug, test or treatment.

A blue dye given into a vein that colors the urine, so the surgeon can see the ureteral openings or find a leak from a ureter or the bladder.

A green dye given into a vein that glows under near-infrared light, used to show blood flow and other structures during surgery and in eye angiography.

A strong NSAID used for gout flares and arthritis, and given IV to close a patent ductus arteriosus in preterm infants.

A biologic drug, given by IV infusion, that blocks the inflammatory protein TNF in autoimmune diseases.

A vaccine, given each year, that helps protect against the flu.

The slow delivery of a fluid or drug into the body, usually into a vein, over a period of time.

A machine that delivers IV fluid or medicine into the body at a set rate and amount.

How fast an IV fluid or drug flows into the client, usually written in milliliters per hour or drops per minute.

Breathing in; also, a way of giving a drug as a mist or powder that is breathed into the lungs.

A hand-held device that delivers a measured dose of drug for a person to breathe into the lungs.

A substance that slows or blocks a process, enzyme or reaction in the body.

A device that delivers a medicine or fluid into the body by injection, such as an auto-injector pen.

Changing the force with which the heart muscle contracts; an inotropic drug is one that does this.

Placing drops or fluid into a body cavity lined with membrane, such as the eye, nose, ear, bladder or a duct.

A hormone made by the pancreas that lets the body's cells take in glucose, also made as a medicine.

A rapid-acting insulin injected just before a meal to cover the rise in blood glucose from eating.

A long-acting insulin, injected once a day, that gives a steady background level of insulin for about 24 hours.

A rapid-acting insulin given just before or right after a meal to handle the rise in blood glucose from eating.

A small, worn device that gives insulin all the time through a thin tube placed under the skin.

Into a muscle; used for a drug given by injection into muscle tissue.

An injection that puts medicine deep into a muscle.

A patient under general anesthesia becoming aware during the operation, sometimes feeling pain, without being able to move or tell anyone.

Into the bone marrow, the route used to give fluids and drugs through a needle in a bone when an IV line cannot be started or kept.

Into the spinal canal, into the fluid-filled space around the spinal cord (the subarachnoid space).

A small T-shaped device that a health care provider places inside the uterus to prevent pregnancy.

A mineral the thyroid gland uses to make thyroid hormone; it is also used to kill germs on the skin and in some contrast dyes.

Iodine joined to a carrier that releases it slowly, used as a skin antiseptic; povidone-iodine is the common one.

An inhaled drug that opens the airways by blocking the nerve signals that tighten them.

A sterile solution used to wash or flush a wound, a body cavity or the inside of an organ during surgery.

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices, a US nonprofit organization devoted entirely to preventing medication errors.

A volatile liquid general anesthetic, turned into vapor and breathed in, used mainly to keep a patient asleep during surgery.

An antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis and to keep latent tuberculosis from becoming active.

A clear, fast-acting, highly flammable alcohol used at 70 to 90 percent as a skin antiseptic and an intermediate-level disinfectant.

A long-acting nitrate drug, taken by mouth, that widens blood vessels to prevent chest pain from angina.

A blue dye injected near a tumor that the lymph vessels take up, so the surgeon can see them and find the sentinel lymph node.

Having the same concentration of dissolved particles as blood, so water does not move into or out of cells.

A vitamin A-related drug taken by mouth for severe acne that has not cleared with other treatment.