Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

oral availability

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.89 in modern English

Syllables: oral avail-abil-i-ty
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The quality of being efficacious when taken by mouth (usually of a medicinal drug).

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"2002, Daniel F. Veber, Stephen R. Johnson, Hung-Yuan Cheng, Brian R. Smith, Keith W. Ward, and Kenneth D. Kopple, "Molecular Properties That Influence the Oral Bioavailability of Drug Candidates". Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 45(12):2615-2623. Retrieved July 9, 2005. An analysis of the measured oral availability in rats for over 1100 compounds studied at SmithKline Beecham has revealed the unexpected positive influence of increasing molecular rigidity as measured by the rotatable bond count and the more expected negative impact of increasing polar surface area."

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

oral availabilities (plural)

Questions

What does oral availability mean?: The quality of being efficacious when taken by mouth (usually of a medicinal drug).

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