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polyvinyl chloride (medicine)


polyvinyl chloride
<chemical> Chloroethene homopolymer. A polyvinyl resin used extensively in the manufacture of plastics, including medical devices, tubing, and Other packaging. It is also used as a rubber substitute. Residues are present in human body tissues.

Chemical name: Ethene, chloro-, homopolymer


area under curve (medicine)


area under curve


A statistical means of summarizing information from a series of measurements on one individual. It is frequently used in clinical pharmacology where the auc from serum levels can be interpreted as the total uptake of whatever has been administered. As a plot of the concentration of a drug against time, after a single dose of medicine, producing a standard shape curve, it is a means of comparing the bioavailability of the same drug made by different companies.