{"term":{"id":"15230","title":"repeat action dosage form","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - repeat action dosage form","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.15230","code":"15230","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Tablet or capsule distinguished from a sustained-release dosage form, by the fact that it releases the medicinal agent, or part of it, at any time other than promptly after administration as opposed to a slow, controlled manner.","notes":{"1":"A repeat action tablet contains usually two doses of the drug, the first being released immediately following per-oral administration. The second dose is released later, when the layer of enteric coating is dissolved."},"links":[{"term":"Tablet","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/15241"},{"term":"capsule","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/15159"},{"term":"enteric coating","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/15185"},{"term":"per-oral administration","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/15145"},{"term":"sustained-release dosage form","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/15239"}],"sources":["PAC, 2009, 81, 971. 'Glossary of terms related to pharmaceutics (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 995 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/PAC-REC-04-10-14)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15230\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15230\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15230\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'repeat action dosage form' 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.15230","license":"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.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"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.","accessed":"2026-05-31T09:56:10+00:00"}}