Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes in Pharmacology
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Quale suffisso indica un inibitore della fosfodiesterasi?

  • -afil (correct)
  • -dazole
  • -bital
  • -cillin
  • Quale di queste classi di farmaci contiene agenti chemiotossici?

  • Anestetici locali
  • Antineoplastici (correct)
  • Antibiotici tetraciclinici
  • Corticosteroidi
  • Quale termine si riferisce ai barbiturici sedativi?

  • -caine
  • -bicin
  • -dipine
  • -bital (correct)
  • Quale dei seguenti non è un antibiotico penicillinico?

    <p>Cefaclor</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Quale suffisso è associato ai farmaci anestetici locali?

    <p>-caine</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Quale classe di farmaci è rappresentata dal suffisso -dronate?

    <p>Inibitori della resorbimento osseo</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Quale prefisso indica un antibiotico cefalosporinico?

    <p>cef-</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Quale classe è rappresentata dal suffisso -dipine?

    <p>Bloccanti dei canali del calcio</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Quale suffisso è usato per i farmaci corticosteroidi?

    <p>-asone</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Quale suffisso o prefisso è comune tra gli agenti anthelmintici?

    <p>-dazole</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes in Pharmacology

    • -afil: Indicative of phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors, used in medications like avanafil, sildenafil, tadalafil, and vardenafil.
    • -asone: Associated with corticosteroids, examples include betamethasone, dexamethasone, diflorasone, fluticasone, and mometasone.
    • -bicin: Identifies antineoplastic and cytotoxic agents including doxorubicin, epirubicin, idarubicin, and valrubicin.
    • -bital: Pertains to barbiturates, a type of sedative, with examples such as butabarbital, butalbital, phenobarbital, and secobarbital.
    • -caine: Represents local anesthetics, with common drugs like bupivacaine, lidocaine, mepivacaine, prilocaine, and proparacaine.
    • cef-, ceph-: Marks cephalosporin antibiotics; includes medications like cefaclor, cefdinir, cefixime, cefprozil, and cephalexin.
    • -cillin: Signifies penicillin antibiotics; well-known examples are amoxicillin, ampicillin, dicloxacillin, nafcillin, and oxacillin.
    • cort: Related to corticosteroids, including drugs like clocortolone, fludrocortisone, and hydrocortisone.
    • -cycline: Indicates tetracycline antibiotics, with examples such as demeclocycline, doxycycline, minocycline, and tetracycline.
    • -dazole: Used for anthelmintics, antibiotics, and antibacterials, seen in drugs such as albendazole, mebendazole, metronidazole, and tinidazole.
    • -dipine: Designates calcium channel blockers, including amlodipine, felodipine, nifedipine, nimodipine, and nisoldipine.
    • -dronate: Associated with bisphosphonates and bone resorption inhibitors, found in alendronate, etidronate, ibandronate, and risedronate.

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    Este quiz examina le prefixes, radices, e suffixes usate in pharmacologia. Discoperi como identificar diferentes classes de medicamentos basate in iste terminologias. Testa tu cognoscentia e approfita de exemplos communs in pharmacologia.

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