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Excipients

"Excipients" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Usually inert substances added to a prescription in order to provide suitable consistency to the dosage form. These include binders, matrix, base or diluent in pills, tablets, creams, salves, etc.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Excipients" by people in this website by year, and whether "Excipients" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 52 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2019
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