API
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5.8
- noun
- /ˌeɪ piː ˈaɪ/
- Specialized
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principio activo
- The active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) in this medication helps reduce inflammation and relieve pain.
Examples
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To ensure patient safety, the quality of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) must be thoroughly tested.
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The Academy for Academic Excellence has a high API, over 800, but does not serve a population representative of its school district.
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However, while the picture may be bleak at the moment, "things are changing and regulators gradually pay more attention to API quality."
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Api!
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Api!
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It is based on Firefox but uses Windows native API.
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That would mean that all of our generic companies would have to not only show bioequivalence of the API but also the metabolites.
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Suppose that due to deeper, harder to refine (more sulfur, lower API), more infrastructure, more security needed, and more energy-intensive technology, the EROEI declined to 3:1 in 2007.
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Never switch a low-dose drug; less than a 10 mg dose per pill means a larger margin for error in tabletting, and there are very few manufacturers in the world with the capability to tablet reliably below 10 mg API per pill.
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Each dosage of medicine contains a specific amount of API, which is crucial for its therapeutic effect.
Synonyms
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1.9
A medicine or chemical that treats illness and sometimes changes how someone feels
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4.6
A medicine used to treat or prevent illness
Surface Forms
Morphology
API = A + P + I
This is an initialism (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient); the letters stand for a domain-specific phrase and are not meaningful English morphemes for general learners.
Etymology
API here comes from the phrase Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient, the main chemical in a medicine. A helpful way to remember it is to think of the API as the key 'ingredient' in a recipe that makes the medicine work, so it is the part that gives the drug its effect.