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What are syrups
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aqueous solutions with a sugar or sugar subsitute
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What are elixirs
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hydroalcoholic sweetened solutions
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What are tinturs
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alcoholic or hydroalcoholic of vegetable drug
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Is a drug that is dissoloved in an aqueous solution the most bioavailable form
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YES
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Dry powdered mixtures contain everything except for
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the solvent
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Compared with syrups elixirs are less sweet and less viscous, and better able to stay in solution
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b/c of alcohol properties
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What are effervescent tablets
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dissolved in water BEFORE administration
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Chewable tablets are used when a faster rate of dissolution is desired
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YES
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Where is buccal
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cheek pouch
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What is SL
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under the tongue
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Do buccal and SL tablets bypass 1st pass metabolism
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YES
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What are the types of coat tablets
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film coatin, sugar coated, geltain, and enteric coated
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What are roles of EC
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resistant to gastric jucies, and readily dissolve in the small intestine
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What are the general man roles of diluents in tablets
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bulking agent to add weight to tablet to at least 50 mg
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Binding agents, bind powders toegether, and affects dissolution rate
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YES
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Disintegratating agenents are added to tablet to promote breakup and disinigreation of tablet, what is common substance
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starch
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The steps BEFORE absorption to take place is waht
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disintegration, dissolution, and absoprtion
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Dissolution is usually the slowest step, especially for drug with LOW aqueous solubuility
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YES
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An emulsion is a UNSTABLE system with at least two immiscilbe liquids, that are stabilzed by the presence of a
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emulsifying agent
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What are types of emulsions
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OIL in WATER (oil is in goblets)
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What is creaming in an emulsions
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upward movement of partciles
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What is seimentation in emulsions
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downward movement of particles
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Creaming is reverible process, is breaking
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NO
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What is a suspension?
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Drug dissolved in a liquid medium, where drug is NOT readily soluble--and must be shaked
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USES of ointments
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emollients (Soft), and protective barriers
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