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Pharmacokinetics

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The process by which a drug is absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.

n. The study of this process.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A branch of pharmacology concerned with the rate at which drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the study of the action of drugs in the body: method and rate of excretion; duration of effect; etc.

Word Usage

"The study of the kinetics (movement) of chemicals was originally conducted with pharmaceuticals and thus the term pharmacokinetics became commonly used."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

pharmacological medicine materia medica pharmacology

Form

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