# Nuclide record biological-half-life (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix nuclide: <https://nuclide.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://nuclide.cc/terms/biological-half-life/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  nuclide:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "biological-half-life" ;
  schema:name "Biological half-life"@en ;
  schema:description "The time it takes the body to clear out half of a substance through ordinary biological processes (metabolism and excretion), separate from any radioactive decay. A drug that the kidneys clear quickly has a short biological half-life regardless of which radioactive atom is attached to it."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/terms/biological-half-life/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.lumen.luc.edu/lumen/meded/radio/nuc_med/radpharm/sect-a3.htm>, <https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2013/07/f2/hdbk-1122-04_sg112_0.pdf> ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/terms/effective-half-life/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/half-life/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/time-activity-curve/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/ga-68/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/cu-64/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/lu-177/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/ac-225/> ;
  nuclide:technologies <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/radioligand-dosimetry/> .