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capsule
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from French capsule "a membranous sac" (16c.), from Latin capsula "small box or chest," diminutive of capsa "box, case, chest" (see case (n.2)). Medicinal sense is 1875; shortened form cap is from 1942. Sense in space capsule is first recorded 1954. ...
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In the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, encapsulation refers to a range of dosage forms —techniques used to enclose medicines—in a relatively stable shell known as a capsule , allowing them to, for example, be taken orally or be used as suppositories . The ...
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n. a small container a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses a shortened version of a written work [syn: condensation , abridgement , abridgment ...
Usage examples of capsule.
From the first-aid kit she took a pack of four 500mg capsules of amoxicillin, a general antibiotic.
In the Andreaeales the columella does not extend to the upper end of the capsule, and the latter opens by a number of lateral slits.
Mariella stops at a truck stop beyond Palm Springs, in the shadow of a gigantic purple tyrannosaurus and a yellow apatosaurus, but gets little sleep in her air-conditioned capsule room because of the noise of the big rigs that come and go all night like gigantic creatures at a waterhole.
In all other Bryales there is a definite columella extending from the base to the apex of the capsule, the archesporium is derived from the outermost layer of cells of the endothecium, and an air space is formed between the spore-sac and the wall.
When ,the Boxheads were through I signaled them to bury the capsule, fix back the plastic yard sheets as best they could and go.
Capsules B, C, and D, the lower spheres, were split into four decks apiece, with the two middle levels following a basic layout of cabins, a lounge, galley, and bathroom.
The Tower facility, small capsule cradles plus the generators, underground fuel tanks, main water storage was mainly underground with access in a third small dome: the passenger and naval vessel size cradles under a fourth with airlocks and auxiliary tunnels to the main facilities.
I pulled stuff from the capsule and handed it to Cruz, who loaded each man as heavily as possible.
It was his parents who had opted for storage as a family unit, Mommy and Daddy and young Viktor all in the same capsule in the cryonic chambers, and once the process of resuscitating his father had well started the other two had already been much more than halfway back to life.
Two add-on paragraphs quoted from a CIA report from Washington: Such capsules were first developed in 1951 by Czechoslovakian chemists and supplied to Communist agents in the Near East areas for several years.
He drank steadily and, when he remembered to, popped green time-release capsules of dextroamphetamine plus amobarbital.
Way back in their history, but well within the scientific era, the Dominionites had discovered some sort of time capsule indicating that their far ancestors had been transplanted there from another planet.
Perhaps when the drawdown was complete, they could locate the time capsule which now seemed so valuable.
As the capsule curved around the edge of the moon, it was creating the only kind of earthrise possible, an artificial one, no less beautiful for being a product of human technology.
In the same way, the Epeira puts the eiderdown quilting and the taffeta wrapper round a capsule that contains nothing.