Pharmacokinetics describes quantitatively the various steps of drug disposition in the body including absorbtion of drugs, distribution of the drugs to various organs, and their elimination by excretion and biotransformation. The rates of these...

The study of the time course of the processes (absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion) a drug undergoes in the...

The study of the disposition and movement of DRUGS within an organism; see DRUG;...

Pharmacokinetics is the study of the movements and rates of movement of drugs within the body, as the drugs are affected by uptake, distribution, binding, elimination, and biotransformation. An understanding of the biological basis of the clinical...

Pharmacokinetics (in Greek: "pharmacon" meaning drug and "kinetikos" meaning putting in motion, the study of time dependency) is a branch of pharmacology dedicated to the determination of the fate of substances administered externally to a living...

LARRY A. BAUER. Applied Clinical Pharmacokinetics. New York, NY McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2001. vi + 759 pp., 106 figs., 47 tbls., $44.95. The author's specialty area is clinical pharmacokinetics with over 20 years of experience. He teaches courses and offers clinical clerkships in...

MEHDI BOROUJERDI. Pharmacokinetics: Principles and Applications. New York, NY.' McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2002. xix + 420 pp., 123 figs., 88 tbls., $ 49.00. In the present era of pharmacy education, a paradigm shift is occurring in teaching from the classical to more applied...