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Pharmaceutical Tablets: Formulation, Manufacture, Coating, and Use

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Summary

This lesson introduces tablets as pharmaceutical dosage forms, explains their purpose and routes of administration, and traces the development of pills and tablet-like medicines.

A tablet is a solid unit dosage form made by moulding or compressing active pharmaceutical ingredients with suitable excipients. The active ingredient provides the medicinal effect; excipients support manufacture, stability, appearance, taste, or performance.

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What is a pharmaceutical tablet?
A solid unit dosage form made from active substance(s) and suitable excipients, usually by moulding or compressing the mixture.
Why are tablets widely used?
They offer a convenient solid form and can provide a consistent, measured dose of medicine.
What are caplets?
Caplets are smooth, usually coated, oval tablets shaped like capsules. Their shape may be easier for some people to swallow.
What is an ODT?
An orally disintegrating tablet is designed to break apart in the mouth after it is taken.
How has the meaning of pill changed?
Strictly, pill can refer to tablets, including caplets; colloquially, it often refers to any solid oral medicine, including tablets and capsules.

Quiz questions

  1. What is a common advantage of tablets as a dosage form?Answer: They can provide a measured dose in a convenient solid form.
  2. What is the function of a glidant in a tablet blend?Answer: It improves powder flow into tablet-press dies.
  3. Why is direct compression desirable when the blend is suitable?Answer: It reduces the number of processing steps and resource requirements.
  4. How does dry granulation form granules?Answer: It compacts powder under pressure without adding granulating liquid.
  5. How does an enteric coating behave in the digestive tract?Answer: It resists stomach acid and dissolves in the less acidic intestine.

Based on the Wikipedia article Tablet (pharmacy), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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