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noun
A branch of pharmacology concerned with the rate at which drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences
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noun
The particular rates at which drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences
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noun
the study of the action of drugs in the body: method and rate of excretion; duration of effect; etc.
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: pharmacology, pharmacological medicine, materia medica
History
Etymology tree Ancient Greek φάρμᾰκον (phármăkon)der. English pharmaco- English kinetics English pharmacokinetics From pharmaco- + kinetics.
Across languages
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