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Definition of Excipients
1. excipient [n] - See also: excipient
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excipients
Literary usage of Excipients
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handbook of materia medica, pharmacy and therapeutics by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1901)
"excipients used in pill-making are seldom mentioned in the prescription, ...
These three excipients should stand on the dispensing counter ready for use, ..."
2. Handbook of Pharmacy by Virgil Coblentz (1895)
"These form excellent excipients, being adhesive and tending to retain the ...
Glycer'de of Tragacanth*—This forms one of the best general excipients for all ..."
3. Lectures on Practical Pharmacy by B.S. Proctor (1883)
"... Order—Official Pills—Proportion of Active Matters—Doae—excipients—Essential
Oils used—Mode of Mixing—Modification of excipients—Official Fills in Order. ..."
4. The Art of Dispensing: A Treatise on the Methods and Processes Involved in by Peter MacEwan (1901)
"PILLS AND THEIR excipients. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. A PILL is a mixture of substances,
generally powders, with a sufficiency of a paste or liquid of some kind ..."
5. American Druggist (1884)
"excipients. Powdered gum arabic by itself is an excipient of very little ...
Moist excipients com monly consist of one or occasionally a combination of the ..."
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