Chemistry
and Human Health Division
Glossary of Terms Used in Pharmaceutics
This Glossary of Terms in Pharmaceutics is needed by
practitioners in the field of pharmaceutics as this field fulfills an
important and crucial role, different from the roles of other scientific
disciplines involved in the drug-making process. The glossary contains
156 definitions used in pharmaceutics. These are related to various
aspects of this discipline such as: 1) physicochemical characterization
of pharmaceutical preparations and the active ingredients they contain;
2) unit operations used in the practice of pharmaceutics; 3) terms related
to the various dosage forms; 4) terms related to the various modes and
routes of drug delivery; 5) terms used in pharmacokinetics and biopharmaceutics
in general, and additional miscellaneous terms. The field of pharmaceutics
itself is of multidisciplinary nature as its practitioners come from
a variety of disciplines, such as chemistry or various biological sciences,
thus a glossary containing authoritative definitions would be useful
for them. The terms used in pharmaceutics are rarely covered by existing
glossaries, and in the cases they are, their definitions are often inappropriate
for the field of pharmaceutics and require new or modified definitions
to better fit the new context.
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Comments by 30 April 2008
Prof. Eli Breuer
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
P.O. Box 12065
IL-91120 Jerusalem,
Israel
TEL: +[972] 2 675 8704
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