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capsule-discharging time?

English translation: capsule transit time

00:31 Apr 7, 2005
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English term or phrase: capsule-discharging time?
Discharging time?

How to discribe properly the time from when a capsule enters the body orally to when it is excreted from the body. Thank you in advance!!!
Jianming Sun
Local time: 06:18
Selected answer:capsule transit time
Explanation:
If you mean the capsule itself and not its contents.
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David Sirett
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4capsule dosing time
Ernesto de Lara
4absorption (distribution) and elimination
Mihaela Brooks
3 +1capsule transit time
David Sirett


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capsule dosing time


Explanation:
The answer to your question is about to be impossible to be given.
However, modern capsules do present a discharging time characteristic or dosing the body. Materials, such as glass or plastics, that have a precise solubility time allow to control how much and when the drug is supplied to the body.

Ernesto de Lara
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absorption (distribution) and elimination


Explanation:
http://physiology.med.umn.edu/shortcourses/5530.html

Mihaela Brooks
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capsule transit time


Explanation:
If you mean the capsule itself and not its contents.


    Reference: http://www.smartpilldiagnostics.com/products/
    Reference: http://www.dcmsonline.org/jax-medicine/2002journals/junejuly...
David Sirett
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agree  Elizabeth Rudin
48 mins
neutral  juvera: You got the right websites. + Could, but it is not, what you wrote, and the article specifying transit time doesn't include it. Also, there should be no difference between capsule and content in this case, they don't separate.
3 hrs
  -> If you can have specific gastric and intestinal transit times, you can also have an overall/total transit time from entry (mouth) to exit from the colon.
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