Spansule

The definition of a spansule, a combination of the words span and capsule, is a capsule that slowly gives off medication.

(noun)

An example of a spansule is a cold medicine labeled “time-release.”

See Spansule in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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a medicinal capsule containing many tiny beads of medicine that dissolve at spaced intervals for long-acting medication

Origin: span + (cap)sule

noun

such a capsule

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