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Pharmaceutics exam 1 questions with || || || || ||




correct answers || ||




What is pharmaceutics? - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔The
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science of doage form, manufacture, delivery, and design
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Four main parts of pharmaceutics - CORRECT
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ANSWER(S)✔✔1.) formulation ||




2.) manufacture
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3.) stability
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4.) effectiveness
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Formulation part of pharmaceutics - CORRECT || || || || || ||



ANSWER(S)✔✔-converting a chemical entity/substance || || || ||



that has a biological function to a physical form that is
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able to ingest (dosage form), API and excipients
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combined


Manufacture part of pharmaceutics - CORRECT || || || || || ||



ANSWER(S)✔✔Factory setting or compounding site || || || ||




Stability part of pharmaceutics - CORRECT
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ANSWER(S)✔✔Make sure that the drug is stable over || || || || || || || ||



the entire shelf life (expiration date)
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,Effectiveness part of pharmaceutics - CORRECT || || || || || ||



ANSWER(S)✔✔Evaluate and make sure that the drug || || || || || || ||



will work as expected until the expiration date
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What is a drug? (FDA definition) - CORRECT
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ANSWER(S)✔✔Any product approved for the use in the || || || || || || || ||



diagnosis, cure mitigation, treatment, or prevention of
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disease; and that is intended to affect structure or any
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function of the body || || ||




Drug, general - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔API (Active
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pharmaceutical ingredient) ||




What is the dosage form? - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔-A
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physical form of your pharmaceutical formulation
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-Vehicle for the convenient and safe delivery of the
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accurate and precise dose of an API ingredient (drug)
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combine with inactive ingredients (pharmaceutical
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experience)


API =
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Excipients = - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Active|| || || ||




Inactive

,Why do we use excipients? - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔
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There are many dosage forms because - CORRECT
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ANSWER(S)✔✔One active ingredient can prepare 20 or || || || || || || ||



more dosage forms that can target different areas of the
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body


Know how to read a product label - CORRECT
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ANSWER(S)✔✔Know


What is the number one selling drug in the world -
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CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔API = atorvastatin, brand
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name = Lipitor
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Classification of dosage form (there can be many || || || || || || || ||



different dosage forms of 1 drug) - CORRECT
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ANSWER(S)✔✔Physical state, intended action, route of || || || || || ||



administration, duration of action || || ||




Physical state (of API) - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Solid
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semi solid
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liquids ||




disperse systems ||

, crystals of drugs in a compound powder, the most
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common type of dosage form due to its stability -
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CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔tablets ||




crystals in a noncompressed powder or
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molecules/crystals in oil - CORRECT
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ANSWER(S)✔✔capsules


molecule - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔solutions
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crystals in a waxy base - CORRECT
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ANSWER(S)✔✔suppositories


crystals in an aqueous or nonaqueous liquid - CORRECT
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ANSWER(S)✔✔suspension


crystals/molecules in a oleaginous base - CORRECT || || || || || || ||



ANSWER(S)✔✔ontiments


may have crystals, usually in aqueous media (more fast
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acting compared to creams and ointments) - CORRECT
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ANSWER(S)✔✔gels


dispersed system - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔aerosols
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