fluidextract

American

[floo-id-ek-strakt] / ˈflu ɪdˈɛk strækt /

noun

Pharmacology.

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.

fluidextract British

/ ˈfluːɪdˈɛkstrækt /

noun

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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Etymology

Origin of fluidextract

First recorded in 1850–55; fluid + extract

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He finds that the fluidextract of veratrum viride is valuable when eclampsia is in evidence or imminent.

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