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Noun Concept
Categories: Drug delivery devices, Articles with short description, Dosage forms, Pharmaceutical industry
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capsule  encapsulation  Gel cap  Gel capsule  Gelcap
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A pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside WordNet 3.0
English:
pharmacy
medicine
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A pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, encapsulation refers to a range of dosage forms—techniques used to enclose medicines—in a relatively stable shell known as a capsule, allowing them to, for example, be taken orally or be used as suppositories. Wikipedia
A small gelatinous case enclosing a dose of medication Wikipedia Disambiguation
Relatively stable shell containing medicine Wikidata
A gelatinous case enclosing a dose of medicine. OmegaWiki
IS A
pill
dosage form
DERIVATION
capsule
capsular
DIFFERENT FROM
pill
USE
oral administration
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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capsule
Wikipedia
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capsule (pharmacy)
Wikidata
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capsule
OmegaWiki
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capsule
Wikipedia Redirections
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Capsule (medicine), encapsulation (pharmacology), Gel cap, Gel capsule, Gelcap, gelcaps, Hard capsule, Medicine capsule, Pharmaceutical capsule, pill capsule, Pulvules, soft capsule, Soft Elastic Gelatin, 💊
Wikidata Alias
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pill, capsule (pharmacy)

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