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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

/ ˌٰɪʊˈɪʃə /

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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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of trituration1

1640–50; < Late Latin ٰīūپō- (stem of ٰīūپō ), equivalent to ٰīū ( 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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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.

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