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trituration
[ trich-uh-rey-shuhn ]
noun
- the act of triturating.
- the state of being triturated.
- Pharmacology.
- a mixture of a medicinal substance with sugar of milk, triturated to an impalpable powder.
- any triturated substance.
trituration
/ ˌٰɪʊˈɪʃə /
noun
- the act of triturating or the state of being triturated
- pharmacol a mixture of one or more finely ground powdered drugs
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of trituration1
Example Sentences
There was no sign of disease, but the edges were white and worn-looking, as if by some trituration.
This opened the possibility that the rough process of trituration was not merely segregating the stem cells from the tissue.
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.
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.
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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