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partition coefficient

noun

Medical Definition of PARTITION COEFFICIENT

:  the ratio of the amounts of a substance distributed between two immiscible phases (as two liquids or a stationary and a mobile phase in chromatography) at equilibrium—called also distribution coefficient

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