Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process by which a drug is absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.
- noun The study of this process.
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- noun pharmacology A branch of
pharmacology concerned with therate at whichdrugs areabsorbed ,distributed ,metabolized , andeliminated by the body.
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- noun the study of the action of drugs in the body: method and rate of excretion; duration of effect; etc.
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Examples
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The study of the kinetics (movement) of chemicals was originally conducted with pharmaceuticals and thus the term pharmacokinetics became commonly used.
Toxicokinetics 2007
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Future work must delineate the social and biological factors, including any differences in pharmacokinetics associated with chemotherapeutic agents, that account for disparities in outcome.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Be Careful. Trust No-One. Shut Up. 2010
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In herpes with arrhythmic propranolol treatment of ptsd diluting hemodialysis, label pharmacokinetics were indirectly titrated by excretion and a longer unconscious penicillin of the located mmhg dose is principally tolerated, the binding may predispose discontinued as impaired by one dose/day
Wii-volution 2010
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This study is evaluating the safety and tolerability of 534 as well as its pharmacokinetics, that is the behavior of the drug in patients, and its pharmacodynamics, the effects of the drug in patient's cells.
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This study is evaluating the safety and tolerability of 534 as well as its pharmacokinetics, that is the behavior of the drug in patients, and its pharmacodynamics, the effects of the drug in patient's cells.
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This study is evaluating the safety and tolerability of 534 as well as its pharmacokinetics, that is the behavior of the drug in patients, and its pharmacodynamics, the effects of the drug in patient's cells.
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- The second part was of a pharmacological nature; it analysed the "pharmacokinetics" of chemotherapy drugs in pregnant women (i.e. the absorption, progression and distribution of the medication in the body) and the "transplacental transfer" of the medication (transfer through the placenta) to the foetus.
unknown title 2009
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- The second part was of a pharmacological nature; it analysed the "pharmacokinetics" of chemotherapy drugs in pregnant women (i.e. the absorption, progression and distribution of the medication in the body) and the "transplacental transfer" of the medication (transfer through the placenta) to the foetus.
unknown title 2009
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Wolfram Blog : Modeling the Fight against Flu with Mathematica 2009
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