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
Clear, pleasantly flavored sweetened hydroalcoholic liquids intended for oral use. They are used as flavors and vehicles.
Elixirs
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
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 rubbed on the affected area.
Liniments
Inhalation are drugs administered by the nasal or oral respiratory route for local or systemic effect. Nebulizers are used for the administration of inhalation.
Inhalations & inhalants
Concentrated preparations of vegetable or animal drug obtained by removal of the 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
Preparation used for temporary relief of toothache by application of cotton saturated with the product into the tooth cavity.
Toothache Drops
Are alcoholic hydro-alcohol solutions of volatile substance used medicinally as inhalation or as flavoring agent.
Spirits (essence)
Are dispersions of finely divided solid particles of a drug in a liquid medium in which the drug is not readily soluble.
Suspensions
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.
Fluidextracts