Question | Answer |
Under the Tounge | Sublingual (SL) |
Pouch between the cheek and mouth | Buccal |
A clear liquid made up of one or more substances | Solution |
Water based | Aqueous |
The scale measures the acidity or alkalinity of a substance | PH |
When the smaller pieces of a tablet dissolve into a solution | Dissolution |
The breaking down (apart) of a tablet into pieces | Disintegration |
Systemic Effect | When a drug is introduced into the venous (circulatory) system and carried to the sight of administration |
Local Effect | When drug activity is at the sight of administration |
Painful swollen veins in the anal (rectal) are, generally caused by strained bowel movements from hard stools | Hemorrhoid |
The property of a substance being able to dissolve in water | Water Soluble |
The ease of flow when a solution is injected into a patient | Injectability |
Mixture of two liquids that do not mix with each other in which one liquid is dispersed through the other by using a stabilizer called an emulsifier | Emulsions |
A stabilizing agent in emulsions | Emulsifier |
A solvent that dissolves a freeze dried powder or dilutes a solution | Diluent |
A condition in which one is free of all microorganisms, both harmful and harmless | Sterile |
Increase in cell death | Necrosis |
ingredients in a formulation designed to control pH | Buffer system |
The tear ducts | Lacrimal glands |
the eyelid lining | Conjunctiva |
A raised blister-like area on the skin cause by intradermal injection | Wheal |
The thickness of a liquid, a measure of a fluids resistance to flow | Viscosity |
Not irritating, does not promote infection or abscess | Biocompatibility |
The area in the muscle where a formulation is injected during an intramuscular injection | Depot |
Particles up to a hundred times smaller that those in suspensions that are -however- likewise suspended in a solution | Colloids |