excipientes?
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what is this word
excipientes
in english - taken from spanish phrase: producto libre de aditivos, excipientes y preservantes?
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updated Sep 3, 2009
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ex?cip?i?ent??/?k?s?pi?nt/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ik-sip-ee-uhnt] Show IPA
–noun Pharmacology.
a pharmacologically inert, adhesive substance, as honey, syrup, or gum arabic, used to bind the contents of a pill or tablet.
Origin: 1720–30; < L excipient- (s. of excipi?ns), prp. of excipere to take out, except, take up, equiv. to ex- ex- 1 + -cipi- (s. of comb. form of capere to take) + -ent- -ent
updated Sep 3, 2009
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