What Is A Concomitant Disease?

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Concomitant disease, ie whether there are

underlying conditions that may affect drug distribution or metabolism

, eg renal disease with ↓ clearance and ↑ drug levels, or hepatic disease, in which there is ↓ albumin production and ↓ enzyme activity resulting in a functional ↑ in drug levels, due to ↓ availability of drug …

What does concomitant chemotherapy mean?

Concomitant drugs are

two or more drugs used or given at or almost at the same time

(one after the other, on the same day, etc.). The term has two contextual uses: as used in medicine or as used in drug abuse.

What does concomitant mean in medical terms?

(kon-KAH-mih-tunt)

Occurring or existing at the same time as something else

. In medicine, it may refer to a condition a person has or a medication a person is taking that is not being studied in the clinical trial he or she is taking part in.

What is concomitant pathology?

The term “mixed or concomitant” pathologies in neurodegenerative disease means that, in addition to the hallmark lesions of a neurodegenerative disease entity,

further pathological alterations can be observed in the same

brain.

What is concomitant effect?

So something that is concomitant is like the companion of the main event. If you start training really hard at the gym, the main effect is that you become stronger, but there are concomitant effects, like

better circulation

, or a rosy glow, or getting happy from all those endorphins you’re releasing.

What does mongering mean?

monger • MUNG-gur • noun. 1 :

broker, dealer

– usually used in combination 2 : a person who attempts to stir up or spread something that is usually petty or discreditable – usually used in combination.

How do you use concomitant?

  1. Cultures that were better at trading saw a concomitant increase in their wealth.
  2. Loss of memory is a natural concomitant of old age.
  3. Deafness is a frequent concomitant of old age.
  4. Any increase in students meant a concomitant increase in funding.

What are con meds?

Concomitant medications (con-meds) are

any prescription or over-the-counter drugs and

.

supplements taken in addition to an investigational therapy by a study subject

. Many study protocols require capturing con-med usage into subject’s study record.

When is adjuvant chemotherapy used?

Adjuvant therapy is often used

after primary treatments

, such as surgery, to lessen the chance of your cancer coming back. Even if your surgery was successful at removing all visible cancer, microscopic bits of cancer sometimes remain and are undetectable with current methods.

What is the word for being prescribed a number of medications?


Polypharmacy

is most commonly defined as the use of five or more medications daily by an individual. However, the definition of polypharmacy is still debated and can vary from two to 11 concurrent medications.

What’s Concurrently mean?

1 : operating or occurring at the same time. 2a : running parallel. b : convergent specifically : meeting or intersecting in a point. 3 : acting in conjunction. 4 : exercised over the same matter or area by two different authorities

concurrent jurisdiction

.

What’s the meaning of exiguous?

:

excessively scanty

: inadequate wrest an exiguous existence from the land exiguous evidence.

What is co suspect drug?



a response to a drug that is noxious and unintended

.

and occurs at doses normally used

in man for the. prophylaxis, diagnosis or therapy of disease, or for. modification of physiological functions” (WHO, 1972)

What is hate mongering?

: the

act or practice of stirring up hatred or enmity in others

In the past, the band has been accused of hatemongering by some critics.

What was a warmonger?

A warmonger is someone who instigates war. Warmonger may also refer to: Warmonger (novel), a 2002 novel based on the Doctor Who television series. Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction, a 2007 first-person shooter computer game developed by NetDevil.

What do you call a person that gossips?

Definitions of

gossiper

. a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others. synonyms: gossip, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger.

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