gastroretentive

English

Etymology

gastro- +‎ retentive

Adjective

gastroretentive (not comparable)

  1. (medicine) Facilitating retention in the gastrointestinal system for a long period of time.
    • 2013, Integrated Pharmaceutics: Applied Preformulation, Product Design, and Regulatory Science‎:
      A number of gastroretentive mechanisms have been evaluated, including mucoadhesion, floating dosage forms that use low-density matrices or gas generation, swelling matrices, and combinations thereof.
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