Pharmaceutics One-Liners – Set 1

May 3, 2023461 views 15 Points By Diksha Bhatla

This post includes simple Pharmaceutics one-liners to help pharmacy students revise important points quickly. Useful for both B.Pharm and D.Pharm.

Adherence of particles into a larger mass due to moisture, static charge, or chemical or mechanical binding

agglomeration

Accumulation or collection of particles into larger units.

aggregation

Solid substances that are not crystals. These solids consist of randomly oriented molecules. Solids without definite shape consist of randomly oriented molecules.

amorphous

Molecules that contain groups with characteristically different properties, e.g., both hydrophilic and lipophilic (hydrophobic) properties.

amphiphilic

Characteristic angle of slope formed with the horizontal by the side of a static conical mound of powder.

angle of repose

Process by which food is rendered free from pathogenic, toxigenic, and spoilage organisms.

appertization

Substance that acts as adhesives to bind together powders for making tablets (direct tableting) or granules (granulation) that are mainly used in tableting.

binder

Procedure for estimating the concentration or biological activity of a substance by measuring its effect on a living system compared to a standard system

bioassay

Relative amount of the administered dose of a drug that reaches systemic circulation from a certain dosage form in comparison to the amount that reaches the systemic circulation by iv administration

bioavailability

#10

Relationship between two preparations of the same drug in the same dosage form that have a similar bioavailability.

bioequivalence

#11

For a substance, the time required for the amount of a drug or a substance in a biological system to be reduced to one-half of its value by biological processes when the rate of removal is approximately exponential.

biological half life

#12

Virus, therapeutic serum, toxin, antitoxin, or analogous product applicable to the prevention, treatment, or cure of diseases or injuries in humans and/or animals.

biological product

#13

A Characteristic of a powder rather than of individual particles given by the mass of powder occupying a known volume

#14

Technique that uses living organisms to make or modify products, to improve plants or animals, or to develop microorganisms for specific uses

biotechnology

#15

Usually a small, flat, and soft tablet, which is designed to be placed inside the cheek to be directly absorbed through the mucosa for systemic effect.

buccal tablet