Pills are solid pharmaceutical oral dosage forms. While technically, the term applies to any such solid medications, colloquially they’re often called tablets or capsules.
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What are pills?
Pills are small solid masses of medicine or vitamins designed to be taken orally without chewing, typically tablets and capsules. Pills may also refer to birth control methods that contain hormones; these types of pills are known as oral contraceptives and they may help prevent pregnancy.
The term pill derives its name from Latin pila, which translates to ball. Historically, apothecaries made pills by grinding powdered drugs and mixing them with gumlike binding agents that allowed for their rolling into pill shapes. Nowadays many pills are machine compressed; and “pill” refers to pharmaceutical oral dosage forms that are not capsules.
Some individuals can struggle to remember to take their pills at the right times each day, making a pill buddy program or setting an alarm helpful ways. Another option would be joining one at the same time and helping each other remain on track with taking your daily dosage of medicine.
Tablets
Tablets are the primary form of oral medication. Before widespread adoption of machine-compressed tablets, apothecaries prepared pills by hand for dispensary customers. Tablets come in various shapes and sizes; round, oblong or disc-shaped tablets tend to be the most popular shapes; they can even be scored down the middle and broken apart into two smaller pills for easier administration.
Pills can accommodate higher dosages of active ingredients than capsules can, are easier to swallow, and can even be cut down to provide lower doses if necessary. They typically act slower and disintegrate unevenly within the body.
Doctors and nurses were early adopters of tablet technology in healthcare settings. They use them for patient monitoring, appointment scheduling, reminders, re-scheduling tasks to assistants or junior doctors as well as delegating tasks to assistants or junior doctors. Hospitals, pharmacies and healthcare management facilities have since caught on to using them for financial data entry, inventory updates, communication notifications and task management.
Capsules
Capsules are a type of pill made by compressing powdered ingredients into a two-dimensional shell, often hermetically sealed and hermetic. This format may be beneficial when dealing with products containing oils or being difficult to dissolve.
Crushed tablets or capsules may be used as evidence of drug overdosing. Consuming too many pills at one time can cause discomfort or even cause death by irritating the stomach and digestive tract, potentially resulting in discomfort or death.
InteliSite capsule devices have been created to remotely deliver drugs remotely. One such electronic capsule device, named InteliSite, contains a drug reservoir, onboard electronics, and actuator assembly – with activation being caused by heat generated from an external radio frequency generator melting thread before puncturing latex balloon inside capsule [47]. This mechanism is similar to high frequency capsules developed in 1980s.
Liquids
Liquids are a form of matter that lies somewhere between solids and gases in terms of their physical structure, offering less rigidity but greater rigidity than gasses. Liquids can take the shape of containers easily while flowing freely; examples at room temperature include water, mercury, vegetable oil and ethanol – with honey, juice and custard also common examples of liquids. Though liquids are nearly incompressible by changes in temperature or pressure alone, volume changes do affect them significantly.
Liquid particles are tightly packed but not tightly bound together like solid particles are. As a result, liquids have unique characteristics like surface tension (allowing small insects to walk on water) and viscosity that set it apart from solids.
Viscosity refers to the resistance of liquids against deformation under shear, and depends on their size and interactions of molecules. Low viscosity liquids flow faster than their higher viscosity counterparts; this allows them to quickly transmit thermal energy, making them ideal for cooking and other uses. At higher temperatures however, liquids may change state to become gases.
