Explain the words and word combinations in English.

The route of administration, health personnel, oral administration, sub­lingual administration, parenteral administration, hypodermic needle, subcutaneous injection, intradermal injection, intramuscular injection, intravenous injection, intrathecal injection, intracavitary injection, in­halation, antiseptic, antipruritic.

Complete the sentences.

1. Physicians use the following ways of drug administration....

2. Drugs given orally pass....

3. When the drugs are placed under the tongue....

4. Drugs are given by rectum when....

5. There are several types of parenteral injections....

6. Gases are taken into the nose and....

7. The local external application of drugs is....

Answer the questions.

1. What ways of drug administration do you know?

2. Who prescribes the way of drug administration to a patient?

3. What is the difference between the oral and sublingual ways?

4. When is the sublingual way indicated?

5. Why should a physician prescribe rectal administration?

6. What are the ways of parenteral administration? What is the dif­ference between them?

7. What diseases can be treated by inhalation?

8. What is the difference between antiseptic and antipruritic drugs?

Correct the wrong statements.

1. The route of drug administration is absolutely unimportant.

2. Oral administration is the route by mouth.

3. If a patient is vomiting, oral administration is advisable.

4. In sudden heart attacks, rectal administration is used.

5. There is only one way of parenteral administration.

6. Subcutaneous injections are given into the buttocks.

7. Intradermal injections are used to cure infarction.

8. Performing the intravenous injection, a physician must be careful.

9. To produce anesthesia, surgeons use intracavitary injections.

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