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trituration

[ trich-uh-rey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act of triturating.
  2. the state of being triturated.
  3. Pharmacology.
    1. a mixture of a medicinal substance with sugar of milk, triturated to an impalpable powder.
    2. any triturated substance.


trituration

/ ËŒ³Ù°ùɪ³ÙÂáʊˈ°ù±ðɪʃə²Ô /

noun

  1. the act of triturating or the state of being triturated
  2. pharmacol a mixture of one or more finely ground powdered drugs
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of trituration1

1640–50; < Late Latin ³Ù°ùÄ«³ÙÅ«°ùÄå³Ù¾±Å²Ô- (stem of ³Ù°ùÄ«³ÙÅ«°ùÄå³Ù¾±Å ), equivalent to ³Ù°ùÄ«³ÙÅ«°ùÄå³Ù ( us ) threshed ( triturate ) + -ion -ion
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There was no sign of disease, but the edges were white and worn-looking, as if by some trituration.

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This opened the possibility that the rough process of trituration was not merely segregating the stem cells from the tissue.

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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.

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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.

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To make the 2 X potency, 10 drops or 10 grains of this first dilution or trituration are mixed with 90 drops of pure alcohol, or 90 grains of milk sugar, and are succussed or triturated as above described, and marked 2 X dilution or trituration.

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