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Descriptor English: Drug Administration Routes
Descriptor Spanish: Vías de Administración de Medicamentos
Descriptor vías de administración de medicamentos
Scope note: Las distintas maneras de administrar un fármaco u otra sustancia química a un sitio de un paciente o animal en donde la sustancia química es absorbida a la sangre y transportada al tejido diana.
Descriptor Portuguese: Vias de Administração de Medicamentos
Descriptor French: Voies d'administration de substances chimiques et des médicaments
Entry term(s): Administration Route, Drug
Administration Routes, Drug
Drug Administration Route
Route, Drug Administration
Routes, Drug Administration
Tree number(s): E02.319.267
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004333
Scope note: 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.
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specifics; NIM
Allowable Qualifiers: VE veterinary
Public MeSH Note: 87
History Note: 87; was DRUG ADMINISTRATION (NON MESH) before 1987
Entry Version: DRUG ADMIN ROUTES
Related: Dosage Forms MeSH
DeCS ID: 27864
Unique ID: D004333
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Date Established: 1987/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Drug Administration Routes - Preferred
Concept UI M0006812
Scope note 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.
Preferred term Drug Administration Routes
Entry term(s) Administration Route, Drug
Administration Routes, Drug
Drug Administration Route
Route, Drug Administration
Routes, Drug Administration



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