15185 IUPAC Gold Book - enteric coating 10.1351/goldbook.15185 15185 current 1 Used on tablets, granules, pellets, and capsules to make them resistant to gastric fluids but designed to disintegrate, disrupt, or dissolve when the preparation enters the duodenum. Enteric coating is used for one of the following reasons: To protect the drug from degradation by the acid in the stomach (e.g., erythromycin).To protect the stomach from the irritant effect of the drug (e.g., aspirin).To facilitate absorption of a drug distally to the stomach. capsules https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/15159 delayed release dosage form https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/15167 granules https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/15193 pellets https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/15221 tablets https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/15241 PAC, 2009, 81, 971. 'Glossary of terms related to pharmaceutics (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 984 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-04-10-14) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/15185/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/15185/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/15185/plain Citation: 'enteric coating' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.15185 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-13T14:16:49+00:00