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Tablet
In pharmacy, a medication, usually mixed with a binder powder, molded and pressed into the form of a tablet, traditionally circular or disk-shaped, but more recently also oblong or differently shaped. From the French tablette, little table
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- Palate, hard The bony part of the roof of the mouth. The hard palate is just in front of the soft palate