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Definition: Pharmacokinetics |
PharmacokineticsNoun1. The study of the action of drugs in the body: method and rate of excretion; duration of effect; etc. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Environment | The study of the way that drugs move through the body after they are swallowed or injected. (references) |
Health | Dynamic and kinetic mechanisms of exogenous chemical and drug absorption, biotransformation, distribution, release, transport, uptake, and elimination as a function of dosage, and extent and rate of metabolic processes. It includes toxicokinetics, the pharmacokinetic mechanism of the toxic effects of a substance. (references) |
Medicine | The mathematical analysis of the time courses of absorption, distribution and elimination of drugs. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Pharmacokinetics |
| Specialty definitions using "pharmacokinetics": Drug Design. (references) |
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| "Pharmacokinetics" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Pharmacokinetics" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pharmacokinetics | 98 |
clinical pharmacokinetics | 8 |
application clinical concept pharmacokinetics | 6 |
basic handbook pharmacokinetics | 3 |
hydrocortisone pharmacokinetics | 3 |
morphine pharmacokinetics | 2 |
insulin pharmacokinetics | 2 |
buprenorphine concentration pharmacokinetics | 2 |
pediatric pharmacokinetics | 2 |
biopharmaceutics clinical pharmacokinetics | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "pharmacokinetics"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | farmakokinetik (pharmacokinetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | farmacokinetiek (toxicokinetics), farmacokinetica. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lääkeainekinetiikka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pharmacocinétique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Pharmakokinetik (pharmacokinetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φαρμακοκινητική. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | farmacocinetica (pharmacokinetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | armacokineticsphay farmacocinética. (various references) farmacocinética. (various references) farmakokinetik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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