Pharmacokinetic

Introduction: Pharmacokinetic

Description of Pharmacokinetic

Pharmacokinetic: Relating to the disposition of drugs in the body (i.e., their absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination).
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Pharmacokinetic: The characteristic movements of drugs within biological systems, as affected by absorption, distribution, binding, elimination, biotransformation, and excretion; particularly the rates of such movements.
Source: Diseases Database

Pharmacokinetic: distribution and effectiveness of a drug throughout the body as a function of route, schedule, vehicle, chemical isomer, metabolism, and other factors.
Source: CRISP

Pharmacokinetic: Dynamic and kinetic mechanisms of exogenous chemical and drug ABSORPTION; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; elimination; and TOXICOLOGY as a function of dosage, and rate of METABOLISM. It includes toxicokinetics, the pharmacokinetic mechanism of the toxic effects of a substance. ADME and ADMET are short-hand abbreviations for absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination and toxicology.
Source: MeSH 2007

Terms associated with Pharmacokinetic:

Terms Similar to Pharmacokinetic:

• Drug kinetics

Source: Diseases Database

• Drug Kinetics
• Kinetics, Drug
• Toxicokinetics

Source - MeSH 2007

More specific terms for Pharmacokinetic:

• Biological Availability
• Biotransformation
• Therapeutic Equivalency
• Tissue Distribution
• Area Under Curve

Source - MeSH 2007

• clearance rate
• drug metabolism

Source - CRISP

Broader terms for Pharmacokinetic

• Metabolism
• Biopharmaceutics

Source - MeSH 2007

• pharmacology

Source - CRISP

The term Pharmacokinetic can be used for:

• bioavailability of drug
• blood level of drug
• drug action
• drug bioequivalence
• drug bioequivalent
• drug biological activity
• drug biological half life
• drug mechanism
• pharmacodynamics

Source: CRISP

Other terms that may be related to Pharmacokinetic:

• drug screening /evaluation

Source: CRISP

The description of Pharmacokinetic may also be used for the following terms:

• mechanism of action

Source: CRISP

Hierarchical classifications of Pharmacokinetic

The following list attempts to classify Pharmacokinetic into categories where each line is subset of the next.

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy:

• Biochemical Phenomena, Metabolism, and Nutrition
  • Metabolism
    • Pharmacokinetics

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy

• Chemical and Pharmacologic Phenomena
  • Biopharmaceutics
    • Pharmacokinetics

Interesting Medical Articles:

• Symptoms of the Silent Killer Diseases
• Online Diagnosis
• Self Diagnosis Pitfalls
• Pitfalls of Online Diagnosis
• Research Your Symptoms
• Diseases & Medical Conditions
• Medical Diagnosis
• [Full list of premium articles on symptoms, diseases, and diagnosis]

Medical dictionaries:

• Medical dictionary,
• Medical Acronymns/Abbreviations

More Medical Dictionary Topics

Optic neuritis, unspecified

Find out more

Search to find out more about Pharmacokinetic:

powered by Search the Web Search wrongdiagnosis.com

 » Next page: Pharmacologic

Rate This Website

What do you think about the features of this website? Take our user survey and have your say:

Website User Survey

Medical Tools & Articles:

Tools & Services:

• Bookmark this page
• Symptom Search
• Symptom Checker
• Medical Dictionary
• Give your feedback

Medical Articles:

• Disease & Treatments Search
• Misdiagnosis Center
• Full list of interesting articles

Forums & Message Boards

• Ask or answer a question at the Boards:
• I cannot get a diagnosis. Please help.
• Tell us your medical story.
• Share your misdiagnosis story.
• What is the best treatment for my condition?
• See all the Boards.

Enter your search terms Submit search form
Search The Web Search wrongdiagnosis.com

Common Health Mistakes

Symptom
Checker

Search Specialists by State and City