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14 Cards in this Set
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Tablets
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Solid dosage form of medicine available in all colors, shapes, and sizes.
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Enteric Coated Tablets
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designed to bypass first pass effect and not affect stomach
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Buccal Tabs (troches)
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Like lozenges (cough drops)
-Usually large tabs tend to be left in mouth to dissolve and suck on like similar to candy |
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Sublingual tabs
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Dissolve under tongue
- Usually for faster relief than oral tabs |
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Coated Tabs
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Film coated tablets
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Chewable Tabs
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Sugared and flavored tablets to mask unpleasant taste of drug.
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Effervescent Tablets
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Not made for direct swallowing, tablets made to dissolve in a diluent to dissolve and drink mixture.
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Oral Disintegrating Tablet (ODT)
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tablets that dissolve on tongue without any water.
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Capsules
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Solid dosage form of medicine enclosed in a gelatin shell
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Suspensions
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Medication in powder form from when adding water becomes a liquid.
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Solutions
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Medicine mixed with water
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Elixirs
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Alcohol based solutions
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Syrups
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Medicine Mixed with water and Sugar
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Creams
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Dosage form applied on skin mixed with aqueous (watery) base or non greasy.
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