Across
- 1. last recommended date for administration provided by a compounding facility
- 5. a comparison of equal ratios; the product of the means equals the product of the extremes
- 7. a system of measurement used historically across the british empire with inches, feet, yards, furlongs, and miles, as well as fathoms and nautical miles, fluid, ounces, drams, pints, quarts, and gallons; grains, pounds, stones, and tons
- 9. a number that represents a chemical element’s capacity to combine with others to form a molecule of a stable new compound, based on the number and activity of the exterior electrons.
- 10. a small dry-weight unit of measurement in the apothecary system
- 13. a measure of time based on a 24-hour clock in which midnight is 0000, noon is 1200, and the minute before midnight is 2359; also referred to as 24-hour time
- 15. a system of measurement based on the apothecary system; units of measure include the ounce, pound, drop, teaspoon, tablespoon, and cup
- 16. the action of hand-preparing a new pharmaceutical product by mixing, combining, or integrating ingredients; the resulting prepared product, which can be sterile or nonsterile
- 17. the amount of space occupied by a medication in a sterile vial, used for reconstitution; equal to the difference between the total volume and the volume of the diluting ingredient, or diluent volume.
- 19. a measurement system based on subdivisions and multiples of 10; made up of 3 basic units: meter, gram, and liter
- 22. a zero that is placed in the ones place in a number less than zero that is being represented by a decimal value
- 23. the ratio of the weight of a substance compared to an equal volume of water when both are the same temperature at sea level
Down
- 2. method of calculating the proportions of 2 different substances to be combined in a new product to create a different concentration of the active ingredient
- 3. an abbreviation for the solution dextrose 5% in water, a common IV solution
- 4. the volume that a diluted takes up in a solution
- 6. 2 ratios that have the same value
- 8. a mathematical system in which numerical values are expressed in either capital or lowercase letters
- 11. the full amount of the final volume in a drug product with all ingredients, the solutes and diluent solution.
- 12. dissolved mineral salts in a fluid
- 14. a comparison of numeric values
- 18. switching the numerator with the denominator in a ratio
- 20. the ability to maintain a drug’s potency and integrity in its compounded form
- 21. the portion, or ratio, of the active strength ingredient to the whole drug product