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Erythrocyte

- a red blood cell. (noun)
- hemoglobin-containing cells in the blood, red in color, transports oxygen from lungs to other body organs.

Eutectic Mixture

The mixture of two or more solid substances which liquefy due to its lower melting point than room temperature.

Embrittle

to make or being brittle.
to make something breakable.
to make or being weak.

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Entrepreneur

a person who sets up a business or businesses, taking on financial risks in the hope of profit.

Etiquette

The rules of polite and correct behavior in society or profession.

Eloquent

fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing

Effervescent Tablet

Solid preparation that on contact with water breaks apart by the effect of gas (usually CO2) evolution, resulting commonly from the reaction of hydrogen carbonate with citric or tartaric acid, in order to facilitate dissolution or dispersion of the active ingredient before ingestion.

Efflorescence

The drying of a salt solution when the vapour pressure of water in the saturated solution of a substance is greater than the partial pressure of water in the ambient air.

Efflorescent

Substance that loses water to form a lower hydrate or becomes anhydrous spontaneously.

Elixir

Sweet (often colored) dilute alcohol-based, “hydroalcoholic”, liquid used in the compounding of drugs to be taken by mouth in order to improve palatability.

Elutriation

The process of separating the lighter particles of a powder from the heavier ones by means of an up- ward-directed stream of fluid (gas or liquid).

Embedding

Technological process, which consists of mixing or inclusion of the therapeutic substance with an ex- cipient or their mixtures, typically as a matrix dosage form, in order to change the rate of release.

Emulsion

Fluid colloidal dispersion system in which liquid droplets and/or liquid crystals are dispersed in a liquid.

Encapsulation

Process of enclosing a drug in a (micro or nano) particle (capsule, liposome, polymer).

Enemas

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

Enteric Coating

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.

Equilibrium Moisture Content (emc)

Final stage reached after drying of a solid, beyond the critical moisture content.

Ectoplasm

outer, more gelatinous layer of cytoplasm under a protist cell membrane

Edema

swelling due to accumulation of fluid and protein in tissue as a result of increased permeability of capillary walls during an inflammatory response;


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