• (pharmacokinetics) Distribution and effectiveness of a drug throughout the body as a function of route, schedule, vehicle, chemical isomer, metabolism, and other factors.
  CRISP Thesaurus
  National Institutes of Health, 2006
• (pharmacokinetics) Dynamic and kinetic mechanisms of exogenous chemical DRUG LIBERATION; ABSORPTION; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; elimination; and DRUG TOXICITY as a function of dosage, and rate of METABOLISM. LADMER, ADME and ADMET are abbreviations for liberation, absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination, and toxicology.
  NLM Medical Subject Headings
  U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
• (pharmacokinetics) Study of the processes of bodily absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) of medicinal products.
  CDISC Terminology
  Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
• (pharmacokinetics) The activity of drugs in the body over a period of time, including the processes by which drugs are absorbed, distributed in the body, localized in the tissues, and excreted.
  NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• (pharmacokinetics) The characteristic movements of drugs within biological systems, as affected by absorption, distribution, binding, elimination, biotransformation, and excretion; particularly the rates of such movements.
  NCI Thesaurus
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• Pharmacokinetics, sometimes described as what the body does to a drug, refers to the movement of drug into, through, and out of the body--the time course of its absorption, bioavailability, distribution, metabolism, and excretion.
  Merck Manuals
  Merck & Co., Inc., 2020