Medication and Pharmacology Terms

A substance used in surgical wound healing to cause a blood clot to form.

A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of cancer.

Bimatoprost is a prostaglandin analog approved both to lower eye pressure in glaucoma and to lengthen and darken eyelashes.

Bioavailable describes the proportion of a drug or nutrient that reaches the bloodstream intact and able to produce its intended effect.

A medicine grown in living cells rather than built by chemistry, which is why no two batches are truly identical.

One phrase covering two very different things: a medicine made from living material, and an infectious hazard at work.

Two quite different pills share one everyday name, and they neither prevent pregnancy by the same route nor tolerate a late dose equally.

Two grips on one molecule, so an engineered antibody can hold a tumor cell and an immune cell face to face.

Bisphosphonates slow bone breakdown and are used chiefly for osteoporosis, along with certain cancer related bone conditions and Paget disease.

The necrosis (death) of bone tissue caused by treatment with a bisphosphonate (a drug or substance used to treat osteoporosis, bone pain caused by some types of cancer, and high blood calcium).

A chemotherapy drug from soil bacteria that cuts DNA using iron and oxygen, and that spares the bone marrow while scarring the lungs.

A nickname that misleads twice over: nothing is thinned, and the phrase covers two drug families that work in different ways.

A substance being studied in the treatment of prostate and other types of cancer.

A drug used to treat metastatic or locally advanced breast cancer that has not improved after treatment with certain other anticancer drugs.

A drug used to treat certain types of chronic myeloid leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

A single dose of drug usually injected into a blood vessel over a short period of time.

A single dose of drug usually injected into a blood vessel over a short period of time.

A substance used in a type of radiation therapy called boron neutron capture therapy.

A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.

A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.