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Pharmaceutical Preparations > Dosage Forms > Capsules
Technology, Industry, and Agriculture > Technology > Technology, Pharmaceutical > Dosage Forms > Capsules
Investigative Techniques > Technology, Pharmaceutical > Dosage Forms > Capsules

Preferred term

Capsules  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Capsule

Note

  • IM for general only; NIM (no qualif) with specific drug IM (with qualif); /adv eff permitted but be careful: it may be the adv eff of the drug in capsule form, not the capsule; note entry term MICROCAPSULES: do not confuse with MICROENCAPSULATION see DRUG COMPOUNDING

Scope note

  • Hard or soft soluble containers used for the oral administration of medicine.

In other languages

  • kapselit

    Finnish

  • capsula
  • kapseli
  • lääkekapseli
  • lääkekapselit
  • Kapslar

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D002214

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