Compounding

Question 1

Examporaneous Compounding

Answer 1

The act of mixing, and packaging a drug according to the physician’s prescription

Question 2

Trituration

Answer 2

The act of grinding powder into a fine particle

Question 3

Geometric Dilution

Answer 3

A technique that mixes two unequal proportioned ingredients

Question 4

Levigation

Answer 4

Adding a solvent into the trituration of a power drug

Question 5

Repackaging

Answer 5

Reducing the amount of medication that is removed from the bulk bottle

Question 6

Punch Method

Answer 6

The manual filling of capsules with measured powder

Question 7

Blister Pack

Answer 7

A container of plastic and foil that has a unit dose

Question 8

Homogeneous

Answer 8

A consistent structure throughout a medication mixture

Question 9

Reconstitution

Answer 9

Mixing a liquid and powder to make a suspension

Question 10

Solute

Answer 10

Something that is dissolved within a solution

Question 11

Solvent

Answer 11

The greater part in a solution that dissolves the solute component