Medical terms beginning with N

The antidote that makes an acetaminophen overdose survivable, by refilling the liver's supply of a protective molecule the drug has burned through.

This medication thins mucus for easier clearance and serves as the standard antidote for dangerous acetaminophen overdose by replenishing a key liver antioxidant.

A substance that is being studied as an anticancer drug in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer.

A substance that is being studied in the treatment of leukemia.

A substance that is used in cancer research to cause bladder tumors in laboratory animals.

Sodium chloride, written NaCl, is an essential electrolyte used medically in intravenous fluids, saline solutions, and wound irrigation.

One of the few drugs that does nothing at all unless a particular poison is present, which is what makes it usable by bystanders.

Blocking rather than replacing sets it apart from methadone and buprenorphine, and it is why timing after withdrawal matters so much.

A billionth of a gram, the scale at which hormones and drug levels in the blood are actually measured.

The scale on which molecules, viruses and wavelengths of light are measured, far below anything an ordinary microscope can resolve.

The amount of a substance equal to a billionth of a mole (a measure of the amount of a substance).

Small enough that surface area dominates behavior, which is why the same material acts differently once broken this fine.

A drug used to treat breast cancer that has spread or that has come back within 6 months after chemotherapy.

A device that uses x-rays instead of visible light to form images of very small structures, such as the insides of blood vessels and cells.

Nanotechnology engineers materials at the scale of individual atoms and molecules, with applications spanning electronics, materials science, and medicine.

The legal meaning and the medical one no longer match, and some drug laws classify cocaine as a narcotic though it is not an opioid.

Nasal structures and treatments involve the nose and nasal passages, which warm, filter, and humidify air on its way to the lungs.

Describes the passage from the nose to the stomach.

A soft tube threaded through the nose down into the stomach, used to feed, to give medicine, or to drain.

A steroid aimed at one surface: the same molecule is sold as a cream and an inhaler, but under different names entirely.