Capsule

Capsule (Latin capsa, container ',' Case for Books roles ') may refer to:

  • A small, usually round container
  • Capsule ( medicine ), a pharmaceutical dosage form
  • A spacecraft for passenger and freight transport, see Spaceship
  • The screw cap on a bottle
  • Or its predecessor, the bottle caps

Biology:

  • In botany, a seed Casing Cases, see capsule fruit
  • Bacterial capsule, slime layer in bacteria
  • Spore capsule of mosses, see Moose # sporophyte

Capsula referred in anatomy:

  • Connective tissue ( fibrous capsule ), the connective tissue sheath of an organ with a tough shell of collagenous connective tissue and the wrapper of a foreign body as an organic reaction
  • Joint capsule ( capsula articular ), connective tissue sheath around real joints
  • Internal capsule ( German: internal capsule ), largest collection of nerve fibers that ascend to the cerebral cortex or descending from the cerebral cortex

See also:

  • Disambiguation
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