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troches

  • plural
    of troche.
    troche
    noun
    a small tablet or lozenge, usually a circular one, made of medicinal substance worked into a paste with sugar and mucilage or the like, and dried.

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After undergoing infusions at a clinic, he said, he transitioned during the pandemic to taking small lozenges called troches at home.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2023

The drug stores are full of troches, lozenges and compounds for speakers and singers.

From Around The Tea-Table by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

Medicines are directed to be administered internally in the form of decoctions, infusions, injections, pills, tablets, troches, capsules, powders, potions and inhalations; and externally, as lotions, ointments, plasters, etc.

From Education: How Old The New by James J. Walsh

It is an ingredient in the pectoral syrup, pectoral troches, the compound lime waters, decoction of the woods, compound powder of gum tragacanth, lenitive electuary, and theriaca.

From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury

The critics of the last century have disputed whether or not this has been misspelled in the original, and should read "trochies" or "troches."

From Of All Things by Robert C. Benchley