Capsule
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Jump to: navigation, searchThe word capsule, or encapsulation, may refer to:
- Capsule (anatomy), a cover or envelope partly or wholly surrounding a structure.
- Capsule (fruit) In botany a capsule is a type of simple, dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants. A capsule is a dehiscent structure composed of two or more carpels, that, at maturity, split apart to release the seeds within. In some capsules, the split occurs between carpels, and in others each carpel splits open.In yet others, seeds are released, a type of dry fruit like the poppy, iris or foxglove
- Capsule (band), a electronic music duo, consisting of vocalist Toshiko Koshijima and producer/composer/lyricist/art director Yasutaka Nakata.
- Bacterial capsule The cell capsule is a very large structure of some prokaryotic cells, such as bacterial cells. It is a layer that lies outside the cell wall of bacteria. It is a well organized layer, not easily washed off, and it can be the cause of various diseases, a layer that lies outside the cell wall of bacteria.
- Capsule (pharmacy) In the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, encapsulation refers to a range of techniques used to enclose medicines in a relatively stable shell known as a capsule, allowing them to, for example, be taken orally or be used as suppositories. The two main types of capsules are hard-shelled capsules, which are normally used for dry, powdered ingredients,, a small gelatinous case enclosing a dose of medication.
- Lymph node capsule The lymph node capsule is composed of connective tissue with some plain muscle fibers, and from its internal surface are given off a number of membranous processes or trabeculæ, consisting, in man, of connective tissue, with a small admixture of plain muscle fibers; but in many of the lower animals composed almost entirely of involuntary muscle
- Another name for the sporangium A sporangium is a plant, fungal, or algal structure producing and containing spores. Sporangia occur in angiosperms, gymnosperms, ferns, fern allies, bryophytes, algae, and fungi. Their spores are sometimes called sporangiospores of mosses and hornworts.
- The electronic or electromagnetic component inside a microphone A microphone (colloquially called a mic or mike is an acoustic-to-electric transducer or sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal. In 1876, Emile Berliner invented the first microphone used as a telephone voice transmitter. Microphones are used in many applications such as telephones, tape recorders, karaoke systems, hearing aids, which converts acoustic energy into an electric signal.
- Capsular contracture, the scar tissue naturally forming around breast implants.
- A protective cover for a cork on a bottle A bottle is a rigid container with a neck that is narrower than the body and a "mouth". By contrast, a jar has a relatively large mouth or opening. Bottles are often made of glass, clay, plastic, aluminum or other impervious materials, and typically used to store liquids such as water, milk, soft drinks, beer, wine, cooking oil, medicine,.
- A cylinder A cylinder is one of the most basic curvilinear geometric shapes, the surface formed by the points at a fixed distance from a given straight line, the axis of the cylinder. The solid enclosed by this surface and by two planes perpendicular to the axis is also called a cylinder. The surface area and the volume of a cylinder have been known since capped with hemispheres
- A capsule hotel The guest space is reduced in size to a modular plastic or fiberglass block roughly 2 m by 1 m by 1.25 m, providing room to sleep. Facilities range in entertainment offerings . These capsules are stacked side by side and two units top to bottom, with steps providing access to the second level rooms. Luggage is stored in a locker, usually somewhere, a type of very dense overnight lodging popular in urban Japan.
- A space capsule A space capsule is an often manned spacecraft which has a simple shape for the main section, without any wings or other features to create lift during atmospheric reentry. Capsules have been used in most of the manned space programs to date, including the Vostok, Mercury and Gemini programs, as well as in Apollo and Soyuz. A capsule is the, a type of manned spacecraft.
- A time capsule A time capsule is a historic cache of goods and/or information, usually intended as a method of communication with future people and to help future archaeologists, anthropologists, and/or historians. Time capsules are sometimes created and buried during celebrations such as a World Fair, a cornerstone laying for a building, or at other events. The, a cache of items and/or information to be preserved for future times.
- The plastic container used to hold small toys and other items in bulk vending Bulk Vending is the sale of unsorted confections, nuts, gumballs, toys and novelties selected at random and dispensed generally through non-electrically operated vending machines. Bulk vending is a separate segment of the vending industry from full line vending – i.e., the snack and soda vending industries – and involves different products and machines, also known as "Capsule Machines"
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