Drug terms starting with A

10 terms

  1. Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) An Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) contains data that, when submitted to FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Office of Generic Drugs…
  2. Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) Number This six-digit number is assigned by FDA staff to each application for approval to market a generic drug in the United States.
  3. Active Ingredient An active ingredient is any component that provides pharmacological activity or other direct effect in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or…
  4. Addiction Uncontrollable craving, seeking, and use of a substance such as a drug or alcohol.
  5. agonist A drug that triggers an action from a cell or another drug.
  6. antagonist In medicine, a substance that stops the action or effect of another substance. For example, a drug that blocks the stimulating effect of estrogen on a…
  7. Application Under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), an oral or written request for an extension of credit that is made in accordance with the procedures…
  8. Application Number See FDA Application Number
  9. Approval History The approval history is a chronological list of all FDA actions involving one drug product having a particular FDA Application number (NDA).
  10. Approval Letter An official communication from FDA to a new drug application (NDA) sponsor that allows the commercial marketing of the product.