Pharmaceutical Centers. Pharmaceutical Centres . Central storage warehouses of drugs, usually of a government level, from where the distribution of medicines for hospitals, clinics and health posts is made. . 1.00
State Medicine. British Health Service, National . British National Health Service . Medicine, Socialized . Medicine, State . Service, British National Health . National Health Service, British . Socialized Medicine . A system of medical care regulated, controlled and financed by the government, in which the government assumes responsibility for the health needs of the population. . 0.31
Area Under Curve. Area Under Curves . Curve, Area Under . Curves, Area Under . Under Curve, Area . Under Curves, Area . AUC 21046 . A statistical means of summarizing information from a series of measurements on one individual. It is frequently used in clinical pharmacology where the AUC from serum levels can be interpreted as the total uptake of whatever has been administered. As a plot of the concentration of a drug against time, after a single dose of medicine, producing a standard shape curve, it is a means of comparing the bioavailability of the same drug made by different companies. (From Winslade, Dictionary of Clinical Research, 1992) . 0.30