Liquid Flashcards
Clear saturated aqueous solutions of volatile oils used mainly as flavored or perfumed vehicles.
Aromatic Water (medicated water)
Used mainly as a vehicle and as a solvent for the desired flavoring or medicinal ingredients.
Water
Are homogeneous mixtures of one or more solutes dispersed in a dissolving medium (solvent).
Solutions
Aqueous solutions directed against a part or into a cavity of the body. They function as a cleansing agent or antiseptic agent.
Douches
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 which are most often used for their deodorizing, refreshing and antiseptic effect.
Mouthwashes
Aqueous solutions used for treating the nasopharynx by forcing air from the lungs through gargle which is held in the throat.
Gargles
Can be retention or evacuation enemas. Evacuation enemas are rectal preparations employed to evacuate the bowel. Retention enemas influences the general system by absorption or to effect locally the seat of disease.
Enemas
Concentrated solutions such as sucrose in of sugar water or other aqueous liquid. They are used as flavored syrup or medicated syrup.
Syrups
Prepared from fresh ripe fruits, aqueous in character and used in making syrups which are used as vehicles.
Juices
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
Thiick, viscid, adhesive, liquids produced by dispersing gum in water or by extracting with water the mucilaginous principles from vegetable substances.
Mucilages
Thick liquid preparations somewhat allied to the syrup and used as a base instead of syrup.
Honey
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
Solution or mixture of medicinal substances in not less than 50% by weight of glycerin.
Glycerin or Glycerites