Also known as active pharmaceutical ingredient, bulk active, active substance, pharmacon, pharmakon, active constituent, API, medicinal substance
biologically active component of a product formulation
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An active ingredient is any ingredient that provides biologically active or other direct effect in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease or to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or animals.
The similar terms active pharmaceutical ingredient (abbreviated as API) and bulk active are also used in medicine. The term active substance may be used to describe the effective chemical used to control bacteria or pests.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).