PTCB Compounding
1. act of reducing a substance to small, fine particles
Answer: comminution
2. to scatter or incorporate the particles of one substance into another
Answer: dispense
3. the act of dissolving a substance into a liquid
Answer: dissolution
4. a sweetened hydroalcoholic solution which may contain an active ingredient or serve as a
vehicle for another medication; binder/filler to mask theactual taste of the medication
Answer: Elixir
5. A mixture oftwo liquidsthat are notsoluble in each other.when shaken,onephase will form
globules in the other.
Answer: Emulsions
6. inert substances added to another substances in order to attain suitableconsistency,shape or
form (tablets fillers and binders
Answer: excipients
7. used to combine one drug with another in a mortar and pestle. place the smaller amount,
usually the active ingredients into mortar then add the sameamount of the next ingredient
Answer: geometric dilution
8. a water loving substance
Answer: hydrophilic
9. water hating or oil loving substance
Answer: hydrophobic
10. using a spatula to mix, smooth, or dispense a solid, semisolid, or liquidinto an ointment
base
Answer: levigation
11. a semisolid dosage with a petroleum or fatty bee meant for topical application
Answer: ointment
12. substances added that are intended to maintain sterility by killing orinhibiting growth of
bacteria or other organism
Answer: preservatives