Tablets

Question 1

These are usually made from moist material using triturate mold that gives them the shape of cut sections of a cylinder.

Answer 1

Molded Tablets

Question 2

These tablets are supplied primarily as a convenience for extemporaneous compounding and should never be dispensed as a dosage form.

Answer 2

Dispensing Tablets

Question 3

These are soft, readily soluble tablets and were originally used for the preparation of solutions to be injected.

Answer 3

Hypodermic Tablets

Question 4

These are tablets recommended to “speed up” disintegration by breaking up or mastication in the mouth.

Answer 4

Chewable Tablets

Question 5

These are small tablets compressed without excipients.

Answer 5

Implantation Tablets or Pellets

Question 6

These are tablets, which are employed to produce Carbon dioxide,

Answer 6

Effervescent Tablets

Question 7

these tablets are designed so that the administration of single dose unit provides the immediate release of amount of drug

Answer 7

Sustained Release Tablets/ Prolonged-Action Tablets

Question 8

a process by which solid, liquids or even gases may be encapsulated into microscopic size particles, through the formation of thin coatings of “wall” material around the substance being encapsulated

Answer 8

Microencapsulation

Question 9

improvement in “feeding” devices

Answer 9

High Speed Rotary Tablet Machines

Question 10

Diluent extensively used for chewable tablets

Answer 10

Mannitol

Question 11

These are substances that make up the major portion of the tablet

Answer 11

Diluents or Bulking Substances

Question 12

very expensive tablet diluent

Answer 12

Microcrystalline Cellulose (Avicel)

Question 13

These substances “glue” powders together, and cause them to form granules.

Answer 13

Binders

Question 14

These are substances or agents added to compressed tablets to cause them to “break apart” or disintegrate, when placed in an aqueous medium.

Answer 14

Disintegrants

Question 15

Swells up to ten fold within 30 seconds when contact water.

Answer 15

Superdisintegrants

Question 16

This method is adopted for tablets components that are sensitive to heat or moisture or both.

Answer 16

Granulation by Compression

Question 17

Sugar Coating Procedure

Answer 17

1. Sealing of the tablet cores
2. Subcoating
3. Smoothing (or grossing)
4. Colouring
5. Polishing
6. Printing

Question 18

These enteric-film formers is not soluble in slightly acid pH media

Answer 18

Shellac Flakes

Question 19

film-former which is composed of synthetic and semi-synthetic polymers

Answer 19

Cellulose acetate phthalate (CAP)

Question 20

material of choice for air suspension and pan spray coating

Answer 20

Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, USP

Question 21

not suitable for tablet coating

Answer 21

Ethylcellulose, NF

Question 22

well-known material for film coating

Answer 22

Povidone, USP

Question 23

The bending of the ribbon is such that two ribbons move materials in two opposite direction and promote uniform mixing.

Answer 23

Ribbon mixer

Question 24

partial or complete separation of the top or bottom of a tablet from the main body

Answer 24

Capping

Question 25

separation of the tablet into two or more distinct layers

Answer 25

Lamination

Question 26

the removal of the edges of the tablet

Answer 26

Chipping

Question 27

the removal of the material from the surface of the tablet

Answer 27

Picking

Question 28

adhesion of the tablet granulation onto the wall

Answer 28

Sticking

Question 29

unequal distribution of color

Answer 29

Mottling

Question 30

refers to the pressure force required to break a tablet.

Answer 30

Hardness or Crushing Strength Test