pharmacokinetics

Definitions

1. A branch of pharmacology concerned with the rate at which drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.
   uncountable
2. The particular rates at which drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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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