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Spansule|ˈspænsjuːl|
Also spansule.
[f. span n.1 + capsule.]
A proprietary name for a capsule that when swallowed releases a drug steadily for several hours, or that releases various drugs at prearranged times. Cf. sustained-release s.v. sustained ppl. a. 1 c.
1954Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 2 Mar. 18/2 Smith Kline & French Laboratories, Philadelphia... Spansule... For capsules containing multiples of specially coated globules..and providing for the gradual release of a medicament in the gastro-intestinal tract. 1954Trade Marks Jrnl. 6 Oct. 1000/1 Spansule... Pharmaceutical preparations... Smith, Kline & French International Co. 1955Osol & Farrar Dispensatory of U.S.A. (ed. 25) 89/1 Dexedrine Sulfate Spansules contain 15 mg. of the dextro salt in the form of tiny pellets, of which there are over a hundred in each capsule, having varying disintegration times so as to release the drug uniformly over a period of 8 to 10 hours. 1971C. Williams And Deep Blue Sea (1972) ix. 102 Our labs came up several years ago with a timed-release spansule; the opiate takes effect in about twenty minutes and then an aphrodisiac eight hours later. 1974‘J. Black’ Oil (1975) iv. viii. 349 The two men had stayed up the remainder of the night, swallowing Dexamyl spansules while they meticulously went over all that Needham would have to do. |