pharmaceutics One Liners with Explanations - Chapter-wise Practice Questions

Q. Technological process, which consists of mixing or inclusion of the therapeutic substance with an excipient or their mixtures,

Ans → embedding

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Q. Summary of operations carried out to convert a pharmacologically active compound into a dosage form suitable for administration. 

Ans → formulation

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Q. Tablet, which does not contain a disintegrant and which is sucked to dissolve in the mouth to produce either a local (e.g., antiseptic) or systemic (e.g., vitamins) effect.

Ans → lozenge

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Q. Dosage form in which the active ingredient is insoluble in the carrier; includes aerosols, suspensions, emulsions , and foams

Ans → disperse system

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Q. The Schick test is done to detect the immunity or susceptibility to _______.

Ans → Diphtheria

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Q. Chemically modified form of a pharmacologically active compound that has to undergo biochemical or chemical transformation before exhibiting its pharmacological effect.

Ans → prodrug

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Q. Existence of two or more different crystal structures for the same compound.

Ans → polymorphism

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Q. The Threshold detergent concentration at which micelle formation begins in the bulk phase is called

Ans → critical micelle concentration (cmc)

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Q. Specific case of drug embedding in insoluble excipients (typically in a polymer) in order to achieve extended release.

Ans → matrix formulation

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Q. Reversal of coagulation or flocculation, i.e., the dispersion of aggregates to form a stable colloidal suspension or emulsion. 

Ans → deflocculation

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Q. Formulation in which individual doses of a granulated dosage form are separated

Ans → divided granule

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Q. A Solid spherical particles of micron-size range, used as matrix dosage forms.

Ans → microsphere

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

Ans → binder

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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. Artificial spherical lipid bilayer droplet formed mainly from phospholipids having a core of water phase, small enough to form a relatively stable dispersion in aqueous media and with potential use in drug delivery. 

Ans → liposome

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Q. Transition of a suspension of solid, usually colloid, particles in a liquid (sol) to an apparent solid, jelly- like material 

Ans → sol-gel transition

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