oral administration
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route of administration where a substance is taken through the mouth and digestive tract
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Within Vinony's link graph, oral administration is referenced by 3,074 other articles, and connects out to route of administration, topical medication and circulatory system.
It sits within the topics Medical terminology and Routes of administration.
Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Other names
- By mouth, per os (PO)
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
362,486 papers- Oral administration of antigen can lead to the onset of autoimmune disease.International reviews of immunology · 1999
- Oral administration of BCG.Canadian Medical Association journal · 1979
- Oral administration of antigen in the treatment of eye disease.The British journal of ophthalmology · 1997
- Oestrogen therapy: oral versus non-oral administration.Gynecological endocrinology : the official journal of the International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology · 2009
- Restoration of Spatial Learning Through Oral Administration of Lipopolysaccharides in Diabetes-related Cognitive Dysfunction.In vivo (Athens, Greece) · 2024
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- route of administration
- Subclass of
- enteral administration
- Image
- Oral administration.jpg
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- Commons category
- Oral administration
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C38288
- different from
- buccal administration
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Encyclopedic overview
A health professional demonstrates how to offer oral medication, on a mannequin. Oral administration of a liquid
Oral administration is a route of administration whereby a substance is taken through the mouth, swallowed, and then processed via the digestive system. This is a common route of administration for many medications.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “oral administration” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.