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AREA UNDER CURVE
A statistical means of summarizing information from a series of measurements on one individual. It is frequently used in clinicalpharmacology where the auc from serum levels can be interpreted as the totaluptake of whatever has been administered. As a plot of the concentration of a drug against time, after a single doze of medication, producing a standardshape curve, it is a means of comparing the bioavailability of the samedrug made by various companies.