oral administration
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route of administration where a substance is taken through the mouth and digestive tract
Key facts
- Other names
- By mouth, per os (PO)
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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
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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.