3rd Round

• CHEWABLE TABLETS

  • Have a smooth disintegration when chewed or allowed to dissolve in the mouth 
• IMMEDIATE RELEASE TABLETS

  • Designed to disintegrate and release their medication with no special rate controlling features such as special coating and techniques
• MOLDED TABLETS

  • Very soft, and soluble and are designed for rapid dissolution.
• TABLET TRITURATES

  • Small, cylindrical tablets containing small of potent drugs.
• DISPENSING TABLETS (DT)

  • AKA as compounding tablets, pharmacists used them to compound prescriptions.
• HYPODERMIC TABLETS (HT)

  • Used in extemporaneous preparations of parenteral solutions. NO LONGER AVAILABLE.
• LOZENGES/TROCHES/PASTILLES

  • Discoid shaped solid containing the medicinal agent in a suitable flavored base. They are placed in the mouth where they slowly dissolve.
• LOLLIPOPS

  • Lozenges are a type of oral solid dosage form with a short stick inserted into it which produces a local effect in the mouth.
• PILLS

  • Small, round, solid dosage form containing medicinal agents and intended for oral administration. 
• CACHETS

  • Related to capsules in as much as they provide an edible container for oral administration of solid drugs
• PELLETS

  • Small, sterile cylinders formed by compression from medicated masses.