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UTILISATION NON INDIQUEE [2 records]

Record 1 2015-10-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pharmacology
DEF

The use of medications for indications that have not received regulatory approval from Health Canada.

CONT

The term "off-label" refers to using licensed medications or medical devices outside of the condition or indication for which the licence was issued. [...] "Off-label use" can also include prescribing different dosages or frequencies, lengthening or shortening the duration of treatments, or using different routes of administration than indicated on the drug label.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pharmacologie
DEF

Utilisation de médicaments ou d’appareils médicaux homologués à des fins autres que le problème ou l’indication pour laquelle l’homologation a été émise.

Spanish

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Record 2 2004-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Analytical Chemistry
OBS

stable: As applied to chemical species, the term expresses a thermodynamic property, which is quantitatively measured by relative molar standard Gibbs energies. ... Both in qualitative and quantitative usage the term stable is ... always used in reference to some explicitly stated or implicitly assumed standard. The term should not be used as a synonym for "unreactive" or "less reactive," since this confuses thermodynamics and kinetics. A relatively more stable chemical species may be more reactive than some reference species towards a given reaction partner.

PHR

Stable with acids.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie analytique
OBS

stable : Lorsqu'il s’agit d’espèces chimiques, ce terme exprime une propriété thermodynamique, mesurée quantitativement par des énergies de Gibbs molaires standard relatives. [...] que ce soit dans un sens qualitatif ou dans un sens quantitatif, on fait toujours appel à une espèce chimique de référence, indiquée explicitement ou sous-entendue. Le qualitatif «stable» ne devrait pas être utilisé comme synonyme de «non réactif» ou «moins réactif», puisque cette utilisation crée une confusion entre la thermodynamique et la cinétique. Une espèce chimique plus stable qu'une espèce de référence peut néanmoins être plus réactive vis-à-vis d’un réactif donné.

PHR

Stable aux acides.

Spanish

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