excipient
[ik-sip-ee-uh nt]
- a pharmacologically inert, adhesive substance, as honey, syrup, or gum arabic, used to bind the contents of a pill or tablet.
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Excipient, ek-sip′i-ent, n. a substance mixed with a medicine to give it consistence, or used as a vehicle for its administration.
An excipient for medicinal agents when they are to be administered in the form of bolus.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume IIArnold Cooley
The excipient is unobjectionable, as it is readily soluble in the juices of the stomach.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume IIArnold Cooley
A pharmaceutical preparation, in which glycerin is employed as the excipient.
The sugar of milk, about 10 per cent., or 1⁄2 grain per pill, no doubt is simply an excipient.
excipient
- a substance, such as sugar or gum, used to prepare a drug or drugs in a form suitable for administration
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Word Origin
C18: from Latin excipiēns excepting, from excipere to except
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excipient
(ĭk-sĭp′ē-ənt)- An inert substance used as a diluent or vehicle for a drug.
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