Drugs

Drugs

Terms in relation to substances, other than food, that have medicinal, intoxicating, performance enhancing, or other effects when put into the body of a human or animal.

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Lisinopril

Pharmaceutical; Drugs

Drug of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor class that is primarily used in treatment of hypertension, congestive heart failure, and heart attacks and also in preventing renal and ...

Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers (ARBs)

Pharmaceutical; Drugs

Medications that block the action of angiotensin II by preventing angiotensin II from binding to angiotensin II receptors on blood vessels.

angiotensin II receptor blockers

Angiotensin II is a very potent chemical that causes muscles surrounding blood vessels to contract, thereby narrowing blood vessels. This narrowing increases the pressure within the vessels and can ...

monotherapy

Pharmaceutical; Drugs

Monotherapy is any therapy which is taken by itself.

mood stabilizer

Pharmaceutical; Drugs

A mood stabilizer is a psychiatric medication used to treat mood disorders characterized by intense and sustained mood shifts, typically bipolar disorder.

anti-anxiety drug

Pharmaceutical; Drugs

A drug used for the treatment of symptoms of anxiety. Anxiolytics have been shown to be useful in the treatment of anxiety disorders.

cyamemazine

Pharmaceutical; Drugs

Cyamemazine (Tercian), also known as cyamepromazine, is a typical antipsychotic drug of the phenothiazine class which was introduced by Theraplix in France in 1972 and later in Portugal as ...