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A Solid spherical particles of micron-size range, used as matrix dosage forms.
Pharmaceutics Pharmacist Competitive Exams
Q. A Solid spherical particles of micron-size range, used as matrix dosage forms.
Ans → microsphere
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Q. Insertion or grafting of a biological, living, inert, or radioactive material into the body.
Ans → implantation
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Q. Specific case of drug embedding in insoluble excipients (typically in a polymer) in order to achieve extended release.
Ans → matrix formulation
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Q. Small sterile usually polymeric matrices, pellets, or particles for insertion or implanting into the body by surgical means or by injection to help achieve sustained release.
Ans → implants
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Q. Emulsions in which the dispersed droplets are in the micron-size range.
Ans → microemulsions
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Q. Number that expresses the reduction in the numbers of a microorganism, brought about by a sterilizaion process.
Ans → inactivation factor (IF)
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Q. Reversible formation of association colloids from surfactants in nonpolar solvents leads to aggregates termed inverted (or inverse, reverse, or reversed) micelles.
Ans → inverted micelle
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Q. A Solid spherical particles of micron-size range, used as matrix dosage forms.
Ans → microsphere
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Q. Artificial spherical lipid bilayer droplet formed mainly from phospholipids having a core of water phase, small enough to form a relatively stable dispersion in aqueous media and with potential use in drug delivery.
Ans → liposome
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Q. Concentration of a drug that must be achieved in the plasma before any desired therapeutic or pharmacological effect can be obtained.
Ans → minimum effective plasma concentration
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Q. Initial, typically larger than the maintenance dose of a drug given to a patient at the start of pharmacotherapy.
Ans → loading dose
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Q. Lowest concentration of an antibacterial drug necessary to inhibit the growth of a microorganism.
Ans → minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)
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Q. Tablet, which does not contain a disintegrant and which is sucked to dissolve in the mouth to produce either a local (e.g., antiseptic) or systemic (e.g., vitamins) effect.
Ans → lozenge
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Q. Release of a drug from a dosage form that it is not immediate
Ans → modified release
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Q. Technological process consisting of the application of a substance, which forms a layer e.g, to protect the drug
Ans → coating
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Q. The disease characterized by impairment in the absorption of neutral amino acids
Ans → Hartnup’s disease
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Q. Method by which powder particles are compressed into a large tablet, called a slug, which is subse- quently dry-screened and compressed into a tablet.
Ans → slugging
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Q. Usually a small, flat, and soft tablet, which is designed to be placed inside the cheek to be directly absorbed through the mucosa for systemic effect.
Ans → buccal tablet
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Q. Number that expresses the reduction in the numbers of a microorganism, brought about by a sterilizaion process.
Ans → inactivation factor (IF)
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Q. The percent of dose entering the systemic circulation after administration of a given dosage form.
Ans → Bioavailability
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Q. Process of making dense, spherical pellets by means of special spheronizing or pelletizing equipment.
Ans → spheronization
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Q. Relative amount of the administered dose of a drug that reaches systemic circulation from a certain dosage form in comparison to the amount that reaches the systemic circulation by iv administration
Ans → bioavailability
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Q. Name a common STI of the reproductive system caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Ans → gonorrhea
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Q. Pace at which a drug along with the stomach content leaves and enters the duodenum.
Ans → gastric emptying rate
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Q. Defined for powders used pharmaceutically, according to particle sizes.
Ans → powder grades
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Q. An enzyme of purine metabolism associated with immunodeficiency disease
Ans → Adenosine deaminase
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Q. Name term that describes a solid of regular shape and the presence of three-dimensional order on the level of atomic dimensions, for a given molecule.
Ans → crystalline
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Q. A reaction between an acid and a base that results in salt and water.
Ans → neutralization reaction
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Q. When a complex is formed between a metal ion and an a ligand in solution, the equilibrium may be expressed by a constant which is related to the free energy change for the process
Ans → stability constant
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Q. The ‘parent’ nucleotide synthesized in the biosynthesis of purines is
Ans → Inosine monophosphate
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Q. The most commonly employed technique for separation of plasma proteins
Ans → Electrophoresis
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Q. Transition of a solid crystalline phase to another phase having the same chemical composition but a dif- ferent crystal structure.
Ans → polymorphic transition
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Q. a term which may be applied to any asymmetric object or molecule. The property of non-identity of an object with its mirror image
Ans → chirality
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Q. Growth on the skin associated with infection by any of the human papilloma viruses (HPV); commonly known as a wart
Ans → papilloma
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Q. Transfer of a drug across a membrane by a transporter (often a protein) constituent of the cytosol membrane.
Ans → carrier-mediated drug transport
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Q. Pace at which a drug along with the stomach content leaves and enters the duodenum.
Ans → gastric emptying rate
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Q. 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.
Ans → enteric coating
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Q. Name the process in which rapid freezing, followed by placement under a vacuum, of a material so that water is lost by sublimation, thereby inhibiting microbial growth
Ans → lyophilization
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Q. The glycosidic bonds at the branching points in the structure of starch are
Ans → 1,6- glycosidic bond
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Q. stereoisomeric structures which are not enantiomers (mirror images) of one another.
Ans → diastereomers
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Q. When a complex molecule becomes broken apart to create two or more smaller ones.
Ans → decomposition
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