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EXCIPIENT

Definitions: EXCIPIENT

EXCIPIENT

Noun

1. An inert or slightly active substance used in preparing remedies as a vehicle or medium of administration for the medicinal agents.

2. An exceptor.

Transitive verb

1. Taking an exception.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Specialty Definitions: EXCIPIENT

DomainDefinitions

Health

Any more or less inert substance added to a prescription in order to confer a suitable consistency or form to the drug; a vehicle. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: EXCIPIENT

Non-English Usage: "EXCIPIENT" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (electuary).

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Commercial Usage: EXCIPIENT

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: EXCIPIENT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  excipient

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: EXCIPIENT

Language Translations for "EXCIPIENT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

赋形剂. (various references)

   

Danish

  

excipiens, konstituens, bindemiddel (adhesive, adhesive medium, agglutinant, binder, binding agent, bonding agent, bonding material, cement, fastener, fastening, paint vehicle, vehicle). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

excipiens, excipiëns, vehiculum (vehicle), bindmiddel (adhesive medium, binder, binding agent, bindingagent, bond, bonding agent, cement, co-solvent, coupling agent, extender, matrix, thickener, thickeners, thickening agent, thickening agents, vehicle). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

täyteaine (extender, extender pigment, filler, filling, loading, sealant). (various references)

   

French

  

excipient (m), excipient, véhicule. (various references)

   

German

  

Trägersubstanz, Bindemittel (adhesive, adhesive medium, agglutinant, binder, binders, binding agent, bindingagent, bond, bonding, bonding agent, bonding material, cement, co-solvent, coupling agent, paint vehicle, thickener, thickening, vehicle), Arzneitraeger, Arzneiträger. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

έκδοχο, ουσία συσσωμάτωσης. (various references)

   

Italian

  

eccipiente (agglutinant, binder, carrier). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

excipientay

   

Portuguese

  

excipiente (diluent, filler carrier). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

excipiente. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bindemedel (adhesive, adhesive medium, binder, binding agent, bonding, bonding agent, co-solvent, coupling agent, vehicle). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: EXCIPIENT

Derivations

Words beginning with "EXCIPIENT": excipients. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: EXCIPIENT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-i-n-p-t-x"

-3 letters: entice, except, excite, expect, incept, incite, pecten, pectin, pinite, tiepin.

-4 letters: exine, inept, niece, nixie, pence, piece, pixie, xenic.

-5 letters: cent, cepe, cete, cine, cite, epic, etic, exec, exit, inti, neep, next, nice, nite, nixe, peen, pein, pent, pice, pine, pint, teen, tine, tipi.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-i-n-p-t-x"
 

+1 letter: excipients.

 

+3 letters: explicitness.

 

+5 letters: exceptionalism, exceptionality, explicitnesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: EXCIPIENT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 58 43 49 50 49 45 4E 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01011000 01000011 01001001 01010000 01001001 01000101 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#88 &#67 &#73 &#80 &#73 &#69 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0058 0043 0049 0050 0049 0045 004E 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

395837435043394854

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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