Tablets Flashcards
These are usually made from moist material using triturate mold that gives them the shape of cut sections of a cylinder.
Molded Tablets
These tablets are supplied primarily as a convenience for extemporaneous compounding and should never be dispensed as a dosage form.
Dispensing Tablets
These are soft, readily soluble tablets and were originally used for the preparation of solutions to be injected.
Hypodermic Tablets
These are tablets recommended to “speed up” disintegration by breaking up or mastication in the mouth.
Chewable Tablets
These are small tablets compressed without excipients.
Implantation Tablets or Pellets
These are tablets, which are employed to produce Carbon dioxide,
Effervescent Tablets
these tablets are designed so that the administration of single dose unit provides the immediate release of amount of drug
Sustained Release Tablets/ Prolonged-Action Tablets
a process by which solid, liquids or even gases may be encapsulated into microscopic size particles, through the formation of thin coatings of “wall” material around the substance being encapsulated
Microencapsulation
improvement in “feeding” devices
High Speed Rotary Tablet Machines
Diluent extensively used for chewable tablets
Mannitol
These are substances that make up the major portion of the tablet
Diluents or Bulking Substances
very expensive tablet diluent
Microcrystalline Cellulose (Avicel)
These substances “glue” powders together, and cause them to form granules.
Binders
These are substances or agents added to compressed tablets to cause them to “break apart” or disintegrate, when placed in an aqueous medium.
Disintegrants
Swells up to ten fold within 30 seconds when contact water.
Superdisintegrants
