A suppository is a drug delivery system that is inserted into the rectum (rectal suppository), vagina (vaginal suppository), or urethra (urethral suppository), where it dissolves.
They are used to deliver both systemically-acting and locally-acting medications.
The alternative term for delivery of medicine via such routes is pharmaceutical pessary.
The general principle is that the suppository is inserted as a solid, and will dissolve inside the ...
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A suppository is a drug delivery system that is inserted into the rectum (rectal suppository), vagina (vaginal suppository), or urethra (urethral suppository), where it dissolves.
They are used to deliver both systemically-acting and locally-acting medications.
The alternative term for delivery of medicine via such routes is pharmaceutical pessary.
The general principle is that the suppository is inserted as a solid, and will dissolve inside the body to deliver the medicine.
Rectal suppositories are commonly used for:
In 1991, Abd-El-Maeboud and his colleagues published a study in The Lancet, based upon their investigation into whether there was some hidden and forgotten knowledge behind the traditional shape of a rectal suppository.
Their research very clearly demonstrated that there was, indeed, a very good reason for the traditional "torpedo" shape; namely, that the shape had a strong influence on the extent to which the rectal suppository traveled internally — and, thus, upon its...
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