Definitions for excipient

excipient ex·cip·i·ent

Spelling: [ik-sip-ee-uh nt]
IPA: /ɪkˈsɪp i ənt/

Excipient is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in excipient (ceeiinptx).

Definitions for excipient

noun

  1. a pharmacologically inert, adhesive substance, as honey, syrup, or gum arabic, used to bind the contents of a pill or tablet.

Origin of excipient

1720-30; Latin excipient- (stem of excipiēns), present participle of excipere to take out, except, take up, equivalent to ex- ex-1 + -cipi- (stem of combinin

Examples for excipient

The sugar of milk, about 10 per cent., or 1⁄2 grain per pill, no doubt is simply an excipient.

A pharmaceutical preparation, in which glycerin is employed as the excipient.

For an excipient in manipulating a pill mass which do you prefer—the magnesia carbonate or the pulverised glycerrhiza radix?

excipient, ek-sip′i-ent, n. a substance mixed with a medicine to give it consistence, or used as a vehicle for its administration.

The excipient is unobjectionable, as it is readily soluble in the juices of the stomach.

An excipient for medicinal agents when they are to be administered in the form of bolus.

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