Combined Science GCSE
Painkillers
What Painkillers means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Medicines that relieve symptoms such as pain and fever but do not kill pathogens, so the immune system still has to clear the infection.
Medicines that treat the symptoms of disease but do not kill pathogens.
Topics that use Painkillers
- Antibiotics and painkillers (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Antibiotics
- Difference between antibiotics and antivirals
- Natural selection of resistant bacteria
- Resistant strain
- Risk of side effects from antiviral treatment
- Selectivity of antiviral drugs
- Symptom relief versus pathogen destruction
- Viral replication inside host cells
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