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Oral (PO), swallowed tablet, capsule or liquid; Enteral medications come in various forms, including [3] oral solid dosage (OSD) forms: [4] Tablets to swallow, chew or dissolve in water or under the tongue; Capsules and chewable capsules (with a coating that dissolves in the stomach or bowel to release the medication there)
Routes of administration are usually classified by application location (or exposition). The route or course the active substance takes from application location to the location where it has its target effect is usually rather a matter of pharmacokinetics (concerning the processes of uptake, distribution, and elimination of drugs).
This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions, including hospital orders (the patient-directed part of which is referred to as sig codes).This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as CD, CR, ER, XT (See Time release technology § List of abbreviations for those).
PO: by mouth, that is, orally (from Latin per os) POA (Health Care) Power of Attorney: POC: postoperative care products of conception Plan of Care POCT Point-Of-Care testing [5] POD: postoperative days POEMS: POEMS syndrome (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, myeloma protein and skin changes) POLST: Physician Orders for Life ...
Wikipedia's list of medical abbreviations provides a comprehensive guide to Latin abbreviations used in the medical field.
Nothing by mouth is an American medical instruction meaning to withhold food and fluids. It is also known as nil per os (npo or NPO), a Latin phrase that translates to English as "nothing through the mouth".
The FDA’s acceptable daily intake of aspartame is 50 mg per kilogram of body weight. A 12-ounce can of Diet Coke has about 180 mg of aspartame, meaning a person weighing 68 kg ...
Parenteral nutrition (PN), or intravenous feeding, is the feeding of nutritional products to a person intravenously, [1] bypassing the usual process of eating and digestion.