English Dictionary

pharmacokinetics

noun

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

Pharmacokinetics is the study of how drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and excreted by the body.

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

(pharmacology) The particular rates at which drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.

Physiologic-based pharmocokinetic models are sometimes used to described pharmocokinetics in laboratory animals, but they are seldom used to describe the pharmocokinetics of drugs used in humans.