Solid preparation that on contact with water breaks apart by the effect of gas evolution, resulting commonly from the reaction…
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Sweet (often colored) dilute alcohol-based, “hydroalcoholic”, liquid used in the compounding of drugs to be taken by mouth in order to improve palatability.
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