Occupation or Discipline
toxicokinetics
Subclass of:
Pharmacological and Toxicological Phenomena; Metabolism
Definitions related to toxicokinetics:
  • Evaluation of the absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of a substance in relation to its toxicity in an animal.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • The branch of pharmacology that deals with the rate at which a substance will enter the body and what effects that substance will have on the body.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The quantitation of the body's metabolism of toxic xenobiotic compounds, as measured by the plasma concentration of the toxicant at various time points.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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