pharmaceutics One Liners with Explanations - Chapter-wise Practice Questions

Q. Usually water or low-molecular-weight alcohols or compounds, used in topical applications and in wet granulation, for the production of tablets.

Ans → moistening agents

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Q. Antibodies that makes bacteria more susceptible to phagocytosis are called ______.

Ans → opsonins

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Q. Scaffold placed into narrowed, diseased vessels (mainly coronary arteries) or a device implanted in a vessel used to help keep it open. 

Ans → stent

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Q. Defined for powders used pharmaceutically, according to particle sizes. 

Ans → powder grades

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Q. Device that disperses liquids to aerosols for therapeutic use by inhalation through a mask.

Ans → nebulizer

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

Ans → amphiphilic

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Q. Method by which powder particles are compressed into a large tablet, called a slug, which is subse- quently dry-screened and compressed into a tablet.

Ans → slugging

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Q. Initial, typically larger than the maintenance dose of a drug given to a patient at the start of pharmacotherapy.

Ans → loading dose

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Q. The mantous test is done to detect the immunity or susceptibility to _____ .

Ans → Tuberculosis

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Q. Solutions (aqueous or oily), emulsions, or suspensions for rectal administration of medicaments for cleansing, diagnostic, or therapeutic purposes.

Ans → enemas

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Q. Condition of being aseptic, or statistically free from living microorganisms and their spores.

Ans → sterility

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Q. Crystalline form of a compound in which water molecules are part of the crystal structure.

Ans → hydrate

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

Ans → amorphous

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Q. Small sterile usually polymeric matrices, pellets, or particles for insertion or implanting into the body by surgical means or by injection to help achieve sustained release.

Ans → implants

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Q. Process in which powder particles are made to aggregate to larger particles called granules. 

Ans → granulation

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Q. Different crystalline form of a solvated compound that differ in the identity and/or the stoichiometry of the solvating molecule.

Ans → pseudopolymorph

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Q. Used on tablets, granules, pellets, and capsules to make them resistant to gastric fluids but designed to disintegrate, disrupt, or dissolve when the preparation enters the duodenum.

Ans → enteric coating

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