This document introduces basic terminology used in pharmacy. It defines pharmacy as derived from the Greek word for medicine or drug. Pharmaceutical refers to a place for producing medicine and drugs. Pharmaceutics is the study of formulation, manufacturing, evaluation, and packaging of drug dosage forms. Medicine is defined as a chemical substance that can cure or heal diseases safely with minimal toxicity and without causing addiction. A drug is any substance that affects the function of living cells and is used for diagnosis, cure, prevention or protection from diseases. Dose refers to the amount of a drug taken, and dosage form is how the drug is delivered in the body.

1. INTRODUCTIONTO
BASIC TERMINOLOGY
Prepared By : MD Ather Ahmed Abid M,Pharm (Ph.D)
Assistant Professor
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2. PHARMACY
PHARMACEUTICAL
PHARMACEUTICS

3. PHARMACY
•Derived from
Greek word
“Pharmakon”
means Medicine
or Drug.

4. PHARMACEUTICAL
A place where production of medicine and drugs.

5. PHARMACEUTICS
• Pharmaceutics is a
branch of science
which deals with
the Formulation,
Manufacturing,
Evaluation &
Packaging of
pharmaceutical
dosage form.

6. MEDICAL
MEDICINAL
MEDICINE

7. • Related to study or
practice of medicine.
• An examination of a
person’s body by a doctor
in order to discover if that
person is healthy.
MEDICAL

8. •A substance
that can cure or
heal
MEDICINAL

9. • The word medicine is derived from
Latin “Medicus” meaning “Healing”.
• Medicine is a chemical substance
which
• Cure the disease,
• Safe to use
• Negligible toxicity.
• Does not cause any addiction.
MEDICINE

10. DRUG
Dose
Dosage form

11. Any substance that effects
the function of living cells
used in medicine to
diagnose, Cure, prevention,
protect the occurrence of
diseases and disorders
DRUG

12. The quantitative
amount administered
or taken by a patient
for the intended
medicinal effect.
DOSE

13. • Dosage forms are the means by which drug
molecules or substance are delivered to sites of
action within the body.
Dosage form