Page 9 - Herlihy: The Human Body in Health and Illness, 3rd Edition

Clinical Correlates Some drugs are prepared as suspensions
and must be shaken in order to ensure correct
drug dose

Some IV drug solutions form dangerous
precipitates upon standing (e.g., mannitol)
Many insulin preparations are suspensions and
therefore cannot be administered intravenously.

CHEMISTRY OF LIVING THINGS

1 Define chemistry The study of the structure of matter and the composition
of substances, their properties and their chemical
reactions

2 Define matter Is anything that has weight and occupies space. Anything
that has mass .

3 Define the Energy, the ability to do work or to putt matter into
following, energy, motion.
potential energy, Potential, is energy stored in cells and waiting to be
kinetic energy released
Kinetic, is work resulting in motion

4 The smallest piece Atom
of an element