Functional Concept
drug administration route
Subclass of:
Pharmacotherapy
Definitions related to drug administration routes:
  • (routeofadministration) The path the administered medication takes to get into the body or into contact with the body.
    NCI Health Level 7 Vocabulary
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2018
  • (route of administration) Designation of the part of the body through which or into which, or the way in which, the medicinal product is intended to be introduced. In some cases a medicinal product can be intended for more than one route and/or method of administration.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (route of administration) The course by which a substance is administered in order to reach the site of action in the body.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • Various ways of administering a drug or other chemical to a site in a patient or animal from where the chemical is absorbed and delivered to the target tissue.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The various ways of administering a drug or other chemical to a site in a patient or animal from where the chemical is absorbed into the blood and delivered to the target tissue.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (route of administration (roa)) Path by which the pharmaceutical product is taken into or makes contact with the body.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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