(Midterms) DDS Lec Quiz 1

Question 1

solid dosage forms usually prepared with the aid of suitable pharmaceutical excipients.

Answer 1

Tablet

Question 2

Tablets are prepared primarily by _______ with a limited number prepared by __________

Answer 2

Compression; Molding

Question 3

Manufactured with tablet machines capable of exerting great pressure

Answer 3

Compressed Tablets

Question 4

Shapes of compressed tablets are determined by the use of what?

Answer 4

Shaped punches and dies

Question 5

Prepared on a large scale by tablet machinery or on a small scale by manually forcing dampened powder material into a mol

Answer 5

Molded Tablets

Question 6

add the necessary bulk to a formulation to prepare tablets

Answer 6

Diluents/Fillers

Question 7

Promote adhesion of the particles of the formulation

Answer 7

Binders/Adhesives

Question 8

Promote breakup of the tablets after administration

Answer 8

Disintegrants

Question 9

There are colorants and flavorants in the tablet

Answer 9

Miscellaneous adjunts

Question 10

Antiadherents, glidants, or lubricants do the following:

Answer 10

1. enhance the flow of the material into the tablet dies
2. minimize wear of the punches and dies
3. prevent fill material from sticking to the punches and dies
4. produce tablets with a sheen

Question 11

Prepared by subjecting the fill material to more than a single compression

Answer 11

Multiple Compressed Tablets

can be:
- multiple-layer tablet
- tablet within a tablet

Question 12

may be coated with a colored or an uncolored sugar layer.

Answer 12

Sugarcoated Tablets

Question 13

True or False:

Sugarcoated tablets are water soluble

Answer 13

True

Question 14

How much percentage does sugarcoating add to the weight and bulk of the uncoated tablet

Answer 14

50%

Question 15

Tablets that allow the patients to swallow smaller portions of it in divided dosage

Answer 15

Scored/Grooved Tablets

Question 16

True or False:

I can break tablets that are not scored

Answer 16

False

Tablets that are not scored are not intended to be broken or cut as this could alter the tablet’s physical integrity

Question 17

Compressed tablets coated with a thing layer of a polymer

Answer 17

Film-Coated Tablets

Question 17

Prepared on a large scale by tablet machinery

Answer 17

Molded tablet

Question 18

Steps in sugarcoating tablets

Answer 18

1. Waterproofing and sealing
2. Sub-coating
3. Smoothing and final rounding
4. Finishing and coloring
5. Polishing

Question 19

Advantages of Film-coated tablets over sugarcoated

Answer 19

• More durable
• Less bulky
• Less time-consuming to apply

Question 20

Film-coating solutions may be:

Answer 20

Aqueous or nonaqueous

Question 20

Capable of producing smooth, thin films reproducible under conventional coating conditions and applicable to a variety of tablet shapes

Answer 20

Film former

Question 21

Make the appearance of the coated tablets handsome and distinctive

Answer 21

Opaquants and colorants

Question 21

Providing water solubility or permeability to the film to ensure penetration by body fluids and therapeutic availability of the drug

Answer 21

Alloying substance

Question 22

Produce flexibility and elasticity of the coating and thus provide durability

Answer 22

Plasticizer

Question 22

Enhance spreadability of the film during application

Answer 22

Surfactant

Question 23

Provide luster to the tablets without a separate polishing operation.

Answer 23

Glossant

Question 24

Enhance the acceptability of the tablet by the patient

Answer 24

Sweeteners, flavors, and aromas

Question 25

Percentage of Film-forming polymer (Aqueous)

Answer 25

7-18%

Question 25

Allow the spread of the other components over the tablets while allowing rapid evaporation to permit an effective yet speedy operation

Answer 25

Volatile solvent

Question 26

Percentage of Plasticizer (Aqueous)

Answer 26

0.5-2.0%

Question 27

Percentage of Colorant and opacifier

Answer 27

2.5-8%

Question 28

Percentage of vehicle

Answer 28

Water: To make 100%

Question 28

Recent innovation tablet

Answer 28

Gelatin-coated tablet

Question 29

A capsule-shaped compressed tablet that allows the coated product to be about 1/3 smaller than a capsule filled with an equivalent amount of powder.

Answer 29

Gelatin-coated Tablets

Question 30

Tablets with delated release features

Answer 30

Enteric-coated Tablets

Question 31

Tablets designed to pass unchanged through the stomach to the intestines where the tablets disintegrate

Answer 31

Enteric-coated Tablets

Question 32

Flat, oval tablets intended to be dissolved in the buccal pouch

Answer 32

Buccal Tablets

Question 33

Flat, oval tablets intended to be dissolved beneath the tongue

Answer 33

Sublingual tablets

Question 34

What absorbs sublingual and buccal tablets

Answer 34

Oral Mucosa

Question 35

Tablets that have a smooth, rapid disintegration when chewed or allowed to dissolve in the mouth

Answer 35

Chewable Tablets

Question 36

Tablets that are useful for administration of large tablets to children and adults who have difficulty swallowing solid dosage forms

Answer 36

Chewable Tablets

(Rapidly Disintegrating Tablets - also designed for children and elderly who has difficulty swallowing tablets, they liquefy on the tongue and patients swallows the liquid)

Question 37

Chewable does not contain these, in which why we need to chew these tablets

Answer 37

Disintegrants

Chewables have no disintegrants

Question 38

The excipient in chewable tablets

Answer 38

Mannitol

Question 39

Excipient in sugar-free chewable tablets

Answer 39

Xylitol

Question 40

Prepared by compressing granular effervescent salts that release gas when in contact with water

Answer 40

Effervescent Tablets

Question 41

Small, usually cylindrical, molded, or compressed tablets containing small amounts of usually potent drugs.

Answer 41

Tablet triturates

Question 42

Tablets that are no longer in the US, were originally used by physicians in extemporaneous preparation of parenteral solutions

Answer 42

Hypodermic Tablets

Question 43

Tablets that are designed to disintegrate and release their medication with no special rate-controlling features

Answer 43

Immediate-Release Tablts

Question 44

Tablets that are characterized by disintegrating or dissolve in the mouth within 1 minute, some even within 10 seconds

Answer 44

Rapidly Disintegrating or Dissolving Tablets

Question 45

Tablets designed to release their medication in a predetermined manner over an extended perior

Answer 45

Extended-release tablets

Question 45

Extended-release tablets are also known as what

Answer 45

Controlled-release tablets

Question 46

Uncoated, bullet-shaped ovoid tablets inserted into the female private part for local effects

Answer 46

Vaginal Tablets

Question 47

Vaginal tablets aka?

Answer 47

Vaginal inserts

Question 48

Vaginal tablets contain these for the treatment of nonspecific vaginitis

Answer 48

Antibacterials

Question 49

What is the bacteria that causes nonspecific vaginitis

Answer 49

Haemophilus vaginalis

Question 50

Vaginal tablets contain these for the treatment of vulvovaginitis candidiasis

Answer 50

Antifungals

Question 51

What is the bacteria that causes vulvovaginitis candidiasis

Answer 51

Candida albicans