capsule
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈkæpsəl/
- Specialized
:
cápsula
- The pharmacist advised me to choose the capsule format for my supplements instead of tablets.
- tablets and capsules
- softgel capsules
- gelatin capsule
So do you mean capsules, like a gel cap?
- So do you mean capsules, like a gel cap?
- I recommend vitamin E women's multi capsule vitamins.
- To promote healthy food seeking, many people opt to supplement with capsule form probiotics.
- And I take a couple of green tea capsules in the morning.
- Create the powder, shake it up, put them in a capsule and send them after you.
- So you want to snap it like a pill, like a capsule.
- You can mix it into drinks or blend it into smoothies, oldfashioned tablets, capsules, powders.
- You can mix it into drinks or blend it into smoothies, old fashioned tablets, capsules, powders.
- We're going to purchase a SIM capsule from the from this vending machine.
Examples
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You should take one capsule of this medicine every morning with water.
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She should take royal jelly, one capsule every morning.
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Every night I just take this capsule, put it into my fingers and apply.
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It was a clear capsule with a plastic toy inside.
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This evening at 8, you'll swallow a capsule.
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Downstairs, the doctor left three different medicines in different colored capsules with instructions for giving them.
Fiction book (1999) -
The usual dose of turmeric is 400 mg in capsules or tablets given three times a day.
Academic text (2003) -
They come as capsules, tablets, lozenges, and nasal sprays.
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Many vitamins and supplements are available in capsule form for easier ingestion.
Synonyms
101
1.8
A small package for items like seeds or papers
53
2.5
A small solid pill you swallow for medicine
28
1.0
A small object shaped like a round tablet of medicine
1
3.5
A small smooth pill shaped like a capsule that is easy to swallow
Compounds
- Specialized
5
4.2
A small spacecraft that carries people in space and returns to Earth
- Specialized
A thin sac that surrounds tiny blood vessels in the kidney and helps filter blood to make urine
- Archaic
A small spacecraft that follows a curved path to carry people into space
- Specialized
A thin two-layer wall around a small knot of blood vessels in the kidney that starts filtering blood
How Swallowable
Surface Forms
Etymology
Capsule comes from the Latin word capsula, a little form of capsa which means 'box'. Think of a medicine capsule as a 'small box' that holds medicine or tiny samples, which is why we use this word for pills and small containers.