fluidextract
a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
Origin of fluidextract
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How to use fluidextract in a sentence
For many years the fluid extract of rosin-weed has been known in my family as a remedy for rose-cold and hay fever.
The Treatment of Hay Fever | George Frederick LaidlawThis preparation, which I call a fluid extract, represents virtually equal parts by weight of the dried plants.
There was two dollars' worth of fluid extract of cinchona and a dime's worth of aniline in that half-gross of bitters.
The Gentle Grafter | O. HenryIf constipation is the habit a laxative should be given; the aromatic fluid extract of cascara sagrada or magnesia are suitable.
The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) | Grant HagueHe gives ten to twenty drops of the fluid extract, repeated every half hour till relief is obtained, or four or five doses used.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 | Barkham Burroughs
British Dictionary definitions for fluidextract
/ (ˈfluːɪdˈɛkstrækt) /
an alcoholic solution of a vegetable drug, one millilitre of which has an activity equivalent to one gram of the powdered drug
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