Chapter 8- Tablets

Question 1

Solid dosage forms prepared by compression with the aid of suitable pharmaceutical excipients

Answer 1

Tablets

Question 2

Vary in: size, shape, weight, hardness, thickness, disintegration and dissolution characteristics and in other aspects, depending on their intended use and method of manufacture

Answer 2

Tablets

Question 3

For oral administration of drugs, others sublingually, buccally or vaginally, with features mist applicable to the routes of administration

Answer 3

Tablets

Question 4

Some are scored allow to be easily broken into two or more parts

Answer 4

Tablets

Question 5

Characteristics of Ideal Tablets

Answer 5

• Free of defects: chips, cracks, discoloration and contamination
• Strength to withstand mechanical stresses of production
• Stable
• Release medicinal agents in a predictable and reproducible manner

Question 6

 No special coating manufactured with tablet machine with great pressure or compacting the powdered or granulated tableting material

Answer 6

Compressed tablets (CT)

Question 7

Contain pharmaceutical adjuncts: diluents or filters, binders or adhesives, disintegrants, antidiarrheals, etc

Answer 7

Compressed tablets (CT)

Question 8

Prepared by: subjecting the fill material to more than a single compression

Answer 8

Multiple compressed tablets (MCT)

Question 9

Result: multiple layer or a tablet within a tablet, inner tablet (core) and outer portion (shell)

Answer 9

Multiple compressed tablets (MCT)

Question 10

Compressed tablets with colored or uncoloured sugar layer

Answer 10

Sugarcoated tablets (SCT)

Question 11

Protects the enclosed drug from the environment

Answer 11

Sugarcoated tablets (SCT)

Question 12

Provides a barrier to objectionable taste of odor

Answer 12

Sugarcoated tablets (SCT)

Question 13

Enhances the appearance

Answer 13

Sugarcoated tablets (SCT)