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trituration
[trich-uh-rey-shuhn]
noun
the act of triturating.
the state of being triturated.
Pharmacology.
a mixture of a medicinal substance with sugar of milk, triturated to an impalpable powder.
any triturated substance.
trituration
/ ˌٰɪʊˈɪʃə /
noun
the act of triturating or the state of being triturated
pharmacol a mixture of one or more finely ground powdered drugs
Word History and Origins
Origin of trituration1
Example Sentences
There was no sign of disease, but the edges were white and worn-looking, as if by some trituration.
This opened the possibility that the rough process of trituration was not merely segregating the stem cells from the tissue.
The standard process for isolating stem cells from neural tissue required roughing up the tissue and then sluicing it aggressively through a pipette, a process known as trituration.
Repeated experiments, however, have established that pebbles are not at all necessary to the trituration of the hardest kinds of substances which can be introduced into their stomachs; and, of course, the usual food of fowls can be bruised without their aid.
On the one hand there are the Hahnemannians, the “Purists” or “High Potency” men, who still profess to regard the Organon as their Bible, who believe in all the teachings of Hahnemann, who adhere in their prescriptions to the single dose, the single medicine, and the highest possible potency, and regard the doctrine of the spiritual dynamization acquired by trituration and succussion as indubitable.
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