DOSAGE FORMS: LIQUIDS DISPERSE SYSTEMS Flashcards
are HOMOGENEOUS mixtures of one or more solutes dispersed in a dissolving medium (solvent).
SOLUTIONS
DISSOLVING MEDIUM
SOLVENT
used mainly as a VEHICLE and as a SOLVENT for the desired flavoring or medicinal ingredients.
WATER
CLEAR SATURATED aqueous solutions of
VOLATILE OILS used mainly as FLAVORED OR PERFUMED VEHICLES.
AROMATIC WATER (MEDICATED WATER)
AROMATIC WATER is also known as
MEDICATED WATER
inorganic acids and certain acids, of minor significance as therapeutic agents but are of
GREATER IMPORTANCE IN CHEMICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING.
AQUEOUS ACIDS
aqueous solutions DIRECTED AGAINST A PART OR INTO A CAVITY OF THE BODY. They function as a CLEANSING AGENT or ANTISEPTIC AGENT.
DOUCHES
can be RETENTION OR EVACUATION
ENEMAS
are RECTAL preparations employed to EVACUATE THE BOWEL.
EVACUATION ENEMAS
INFLUENCES the GENERAL SYSTEM by ABSORPTION or to effect locally the seat of disease.
RETENTION ENEMAS
aqueous solutions used for treating the NASOPHARYNX by forcing air from the lungs through GARGLE which is held in the throat.
GARGLES
aqueous solutions which are most often used for their DEODORIZING, REFRESHING and ANTISEPTIC effect.
MOUTHWASHES
prepared from FRESH RIPE FRUITS, aqueous in character and USED IN MAKING SYRUPS which are used as vehicles.
JUICES
CONCENTRATED SOLUTONS OF SUGAR such as sucrose in water or other aqueous liquid.
They are used as flavored ____ or medicated ____.
SYRUPS
THICK LIQUID preparations somewhat
allied to the syrup and used as a BASE instead of syrup.
HONEY
THICK, VISCID, ADHESIVE liquids produced by DISPERSING GUM IN WATER or by extracting with water the mucilaginous principles from vegetable substances.
MUCILAGES
class of GEL in which the structural coherent
matrix contain a HIGH PROPORTION OF LIQUID, usually water. They are used as LUBRICANT for surgical gloves, catheters, and rectal thermometer.
JELLIES
contains PYROXYLIN in a mixture of ethyl ether and ethanol. They are applied to the skin by a SOFT BRUSH APPLICATOR & when the ether & ethanol have evaporated, they leave a film of pyroxylin on the surface.
COLLODION
clear, PLEASANTLY FLAVORED sweetened HYDROALCOHOLIC liquids intended for oral use. They are used as flavors and vehicles.
ELIXIRS
solution or mixture of medicinal substances in NOT LESS THAN 50% by weight of glycerin.
GLYCERIN / GLYCERITES
are drugs administered by the NASAL OR RESPIRATORY ROUTE for local or systemic effect.
INHALATION
are used for the administration of inhalation.
NEBULIZERS
COLLODION contains ____
PYROXYLIN
GLYCERIN or GLYCERITES are solution/mixture of substances in not less than __% by weight of glycerin
50%
solutions or mixtures of various substances in OIL, ALCOHOLIC SOLUTIONS OF SOAP OR EMULSION. They are intended for EXTERNAL APPLICATION. They are applied by being RUBBEN on the affected area.
LINIMENTS
FISH LIVER OILS diluted with edible vegetable oil or solution of volatile substances of the indicated vitamins in
vitamin concentrates (vit. A and D) in fish
liver oil.
OLEO VITAMINS
in OLEO VITAMINS, fish liver oils are diluted with _____
EDIBLE VEGETABLE OIL or SLUTION OF VOLATILE SUBSTANCES
VITAMIN CONCENTRATES IN FISH LIVER OIL
VITS A & D
are ALCOHOLIC HYDRO-ALCOHOL SOLUTIONS of volatile substance used medicinally as INHALATION or as FLAVORING AGENT.
SPIRITS (ESSENCE)
preparation used for TEMPORARY RELIEF OF TOOTACHE by application of cotton saturated with the product into the tooth cavity.
TOOTHACHE DROPS
SPIRITS (essence) are used medicinally as
INHALATION or as FLAVORING AGENT
application of toothache drops
COTTON SATURATED WITH THE PRODUCT INTO THE TOOTH CAVITY
concentrated preparations of VEGETABLE OR ANIMAL DRUG obtained by REMOVAL OF ACTIVE CONSTITUENTS of the respective drugs with suitable menstruum, evaporation of all or nearly all of the solvent and adjustment of the residual masses or powders to the prescribed standard.
EXTRACTS
are alcoholic or hydroalcoholic solutions of chemical or soluble constituents of VEGETABLE DRUGS.
TINCTURES
LIQUID PREPARATION OF VEGETABLE DRUGS containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, or both, so made that each mL contains the therapeutic constituents of 1 gram of standard drug that it represents
FLUID EXTRACTS
are DISPERSIONS OF FINELY DIVIDED SOLID PARTICLES of a drug in a liquid medium in which the drug is NOT READILY SOLUBLE.
SUSPENSIONS
is a THERMODYNAMICALLY UNSTABLE SYSTEM that consists of two immiscible liquid phases— dispersed phase and continuous phase
EMULSION
emulsion dispersed as GLOBULES
DISPERSED PHASE
emulsion in a LIQUID phase that are stabilized by the PRESENCE OF AN EMULSIFYING AGENT.
CONTINUOUS PHASE
are PRESSURIZED DOSAGE FORMS that upon actuation EMIT A FINE DISPERSION OF LIQUID and/or solid materials CONTAINING ONE OR MORE ACTIVE INGREDIENT in a GASEOUS MEDIUM
AEROSOLS
