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What is the difference between tablet and capsule and pill ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between tablet and capsule and pill ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Pill originally meant small, round medication. It is more known now to mean all solid forms of medications.
Pill = All solid medication.
Tablet = Powdered medication. Round shape.
Caplet = Powdered medication shaped like an oval or caspule shape.
Geltab = Gel/liquid medication in a geletane casing. Round shape.
caspule = Liquid/gel/powdered medication in a solid geletane casing.
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- English (UK)
Tablet and pill are basically the same thing. A capsule is taken like a tablet/pill but has the medication inside an edible casing. Their shapes are also different.
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their shape are different. tablet = Round, Capsule = tapering or oval, pill = round but smaller than tablet
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- English (UK)
Pill originally meant small, round medication. It is more known now to mean all solid forms of medications.
Pill = All solid medication.
Tablet = Powdered medication. Round shape.
Caplet = Powdered medication shaped like an oval or caspule shape.
Geltab = Gel/liquid medication in a geletane casing. Round shape.
caspule = Liquid/gel/powdered medication in a solid geletane casing.
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