What Are the Advantages of Adopting a Flexible Position

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Essay

What are the advantages of adopting a flexible position?

Recognize the concepts of therapeutic windows, effective dose (ED), and lethal dose (LD), and how they relate to drug safety and toxicity.

Define and distinguish between prime and secondary effects of drugs.

Grasp the importance of pharmacokinetics, including absorption, distribution, metabolism (biotransformation), and elimination processes.

Understand the factors influencing drug bioavailability and effects, including method of administration and individual's characteristics.

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Definitions:

Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus, an 18th-century Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist who developed a system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms.

Primates

Primates are an order of mammals that includes humans, apes, monkeys, and prosimians, characterized by complex behaviors, varied forms of locomotion, and a large brain relative to body size.

Hominids

Primates characterized by bipedalism and large brains, including the human lineage and all our immediate ancestors.

Genus

A rank in the biological classification system (taxonomy) that is used to group species sharing common characteristics, directly above species and below family.