Pharmacokinetics

/ˌfɑː(ɹ)məkəʊkɪˈnɛtɪks/ noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A branch of pharmacology concerned with the rate at which drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body. uncountable
  2. 2
    the study of the action of drugs in the body: method and rate of excretion, duration of effect, etc. wordnet
  3. 3
    The particular rates at which drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body. uncountable

    "Physiologic-based pharmocokinetic models are sometimes used to describe pharmocokinetics in laboratory animals, but they are seldom used to describe the pharmocokinetics of drugs used in humans."

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drug kinetics

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"Physiologic-based pharmocokinetic models are sometimes used to describe pharmocokinetics in laboratory animals, but they are seldom used to describe the pharmocokinetics of drugs used in humans."

Etymology

From pharmaco- + kinetics.

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