capsule
Capsule ( Latin capsa , container ',' box for book rolls') denotes:
- a small, usually round container
- Capsule (medicament) , a pharmaceutical dosage form
- a spacecraft for transporting people and cargo, see spacecraft
- a flat cake base made of sponge cake
- the bottle cap today combined as a screw cap on a bottle
- or alternative name of the crown cap
Biology:
- in botany a protective covering covering the seeds, see capsule fruit
- Bacteria capsule , a layer of mucus in bacteria
- Spore capsule from mosses, see Moose #Sporophyte
In anatomy, capsula means:
- Connective tissue capsule (capsula fibrosa), the connective tissue covering of an organ with a tough covering made of collagenous connective tissue or the covering of a foreign body as an organic reaction
- Joint capsule (capsula articularis), connective tissue covering around real joints
- Capsula interna (German: inner capsule), largest collection of nerve fibers that ascend to the cerebral cortex or descend from the cerebral cortex
See also:
Wiktionary: capsule - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title begins with capsule
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title contains capsule
- Encapsulation (disambiguation)
- Capsid (also capsid ; from Latin capsula : small capsule), complex, regular protein structure in viruses, which is used to package the virus genome
