Page 3 - Course Guide 2019

1 CONTENTS

2 General notes ................................................................................................................... 5
3 Common medical terms in pharmaceutics ....................................................................... 6

4 Latin abbreviations ........................................................................................................... 8
4.1 To describe quantity ................................................................................................. 8
4.2 To describe dosage forms (remedies) ...................................................................... 8

4.3 To describe preparation instructions ........................................................................ 9
4.4 To describe method of administrations / applications ............................................... 9
4.5 To describe amount of dosage ................................................................................. 9

4.6 To describe time of administration .......................................................................... 10
4.6.1 Times per day ..................................................................................................... 10
4.6.2 Parts of the day ................................................................................................... 10

4.6.3 ‘Hour’ time ........................................................................................................... 10
4.6.4 Correlated time ................................................................................................... 11
4.6.5 Others ................................................................................................................. 11

4.7 To describe vehicles of administration ................................................................... 11
4.8 To describe part of body to be applied ................................................................... 11
4.9 Others ..................................................................................................................... 12

5 General units in Pharmacy ............................................................................................. 13
5.1 Metric units ............................................................................................................. 13
5.2 Us measures (volume) ........................................................................................... 13

5.3 Household measures and metric length ................................................................. 14
5.4 Household measures and metric volume ............................................................... 14
5.5 Apothecary and avoirdupois ................................................................................... 14

6 Types of pharmaceutical preparations, storage, packaging and labelling requirements 15
6.1 Internal Preparations .............................................................................................. 15
6.2 External Preparations ............................................................................................. 16

6.3 Storage, packaging and labelling requirements ..................................................... 17
6.4 Labelling requirements ........................................................................................... 18
7 Prescriptions and preparation of formulation .................................................................. 20

7.1 Prescriptions ........................................................................................................... 20
7.2 Preparation of formulation ...................................................................................... 26
7.2.1 Active ingredients (poison and non-poison) ........................................................ 26

7.2.2 Excipients ............................................................................................................ 26
7.2.3 Weighing ............................................................................................................. 26
7.2.4 Equipment / Glassware ....................................................................................... 27

7.2.5 Containers/Bottles ............................................................................................... 28