trituration
Americannoun
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the act of triturating.
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the state of being triturated.
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Pharmacology.
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a mixture of a medicinal substance with sugar of milk, triturated to an impalpable powder.
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any triturated substance.
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noun
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the act of triturating or the state of being triturated
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pharmacol a mixture of one or more finely ground powdered drugs
Etymology
Origin of trituration
1640–50; < Late Latin trītūrātiōn- (stem of trītūrātiō ), equivalent to trītūrāt ( us ) threshed ( triturate ) + -ion -ion
Example Sentences
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This opened the possibility that the rough process of trituration was not merely segregating the stem cells from the tissue.
From The New Yorker
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.
From The New Yorker
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.
From Project Gutenberg
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.
From Project Gutenberg
Some homoeopathists of the present day still believe with Hahnemann that, even after the material medicinal particles of a drug have been subdivided to the fullest extent, the continuation of the dynamization or trituration or succussion develops a spiritual acurative agency, and that the higher the potency, the more subtle and more powerful is the curative action.
From Project Gutenberg
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