- Administer medication
- Allergy
- Anemia
- Antibiotics
- Selfmedication
- Bacterium
- Cell
- Contagion
- Contraindications
- Counterfeit medications
- Expiry date
The date after which a medication can’t be taken safely.
- Diagnosis
- Immune deficiency
- Medication delivery
- Malnutrition
- Screening A strategy used to identify the possible presence of an as-yet-undiagnosed disease. Screening enables to manage the disease in its early stage for a more effective treatment.
- Dehydration Excessive loss of water from the body.
- Epidemic The spread of a contagious disease to a large number of people.
- Galenic form The Galenic form is the individual shape of a medication. It is designed to enable the active principles to reach maximum effectiveness.
- Generic medication A generic medication is the exact equivalent of a brand medication originally owned by the laboratory that created it and which has become off-brand. The medication belongs then to the public domain and can therefore be manufactured and marketed by other laboratories under a different name. It has the same quantitative and qualitative composition in active principles as the original medication.
- Illegal medications Medications sold on the street, the market, outside the legal circuit. They are very often stolen, can be expired and therefore very dangerous.
- Microbe A micro organism (a virus, a bacterium or a parasite) that can cause diseases.
- Prescription A document written by the medical staff as for administration of medications (name of the medications, length of treatment, schedules). The prescription is handed to the chemist when the medications are dispensed.
- Medical staff Anyone who provides medical care in a health facility or a pharmacy.
- Dosage Dose of medication prescribed by the medical staff. It is crucial to fully respect the dosage for an effective treatment and the patient’s safety. Dosage depends on many factors such as weight, age, medical history and taking other medications.
- Medical prescription The medical staff defines treatment and cares for the sick patient. The medical prescritption will be written on a document that will be handed when the medications are dispensed. Only medical staff are authorised to write a prescription.
- Active principle Substance responsible for the therapeutic effects of a medication. Every medication contains one or several different active principles each of them having a very precise role towards recovery.
- Symptom Disorder, discomfort, pain, any unusual sign suggesting a disease outbreak. Symptoms appear before the actual disease but also during its progress. Observation of these symptoms allows the medical staff to identify a possible disease.
- Immune system A collection of cells whose goal is to defend the human body against diseases.
- Virus Micro organism that enters a cell and uses it to multiply and infect other cells of the human body. Diseases such as AIDS are caused by viruses.