Chemical
active ingredient
ac·tive in·gre·di·ent
Definitions related to active ingredient:
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An active ingredient is any component of a drug product intended to exert pharmacological activity or other direct effect in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, or to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or other animals.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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An ingredient that has the intended pharmacological action.U.S. FDA GlossaryU.S. Food & Drug Administration, 2021
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Definition:a therapeutically active ingredient (player) in a mixture (scoper), where the mixture is typically a manufactured pharmaceutical. It is unknown if the quantity of such an ingredient is expressed precisely in terms of the playing ingredient substance, or, if it is specified in terms of a closely related substance (active moiety or reference substance).NCI Health Level 7 VocabularyU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2018
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The pharmaceutically active components of a preparation.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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