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