DECOCTION
\dɪkˈɒkʃən], \dɪkˈɒkʃən], \d_ɪ_k_ˈɒ_k_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of DECOCTION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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(pharmacology) the extraction by boiling of water-soluble drug substances
By Princeton University
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(pharmacology) the extraction by boiling of water-soluble drug substances
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By Oddity Software
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By James Champlin Fernald
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The act of boiling a substance in water to extract its virtues; the extract obtained by the boiling.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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The operation of boiling certain ingredients in a fluid, for the purpose of extracting the parts soluble at that temperature. Decoction, likewise, means the product of this operation, to which the terms Decoctum, Zema, Aphepsema, Apozem, Apozema, Hepsema, Chylus and Epsema, (F.) Decocte, Hydrole, Hydrolite, have been applied according to ancient custom, in order to avoid any confusion between the operation and its product; -as proeparatia is used for the act of preparing; proeparatum, for the thing prepared.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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