excipient

Borrowed from Latin excipiēns, present participle of excipiō. See except.

excipient (plural excipients)

1. (pharmacy, pharmacology) An ingredient that is intentionally added to a drug for purposes other than the therapeutic or diagnostic effect at the intended dosage.
2. An exceptor.

• concipient
• incipient
• intercipient
• recipient

excipient (comparative more excipient, superlative most excipient)

1. Taking an exception.

• “excipient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

excipient m (plural excipients)

1. excipient

• “excipient”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

excipient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of excipiō

Borrowed from French excipient.

excipient n (plural excipienți)

1. excipient