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

/ ˌtrɪtjʊˈreɪʃən /

noun

1. the act of triturating or the state of being triturated
2. pharmacol a mixture of one or more finely ground powdered drugs

Word History and Origins

Origin of trituration¹

1640–50; < Late Latin trītūrātiōn- (stem of trītūrātiō ), equivalent to trītūrāt ( us ) threshed ( triturate ) + -ion -ion

Example Sentences

There was no sign of disease, but the edges were white and worn-looking, as if by some trituration.

From Literature

The position near the coast of all the craters composed of this kind of tuff or peperino, and their breached condition, renders it probable that they were all formed when standing immersed in the sea; considering this circumstance, together with the remarkable absence of large beds of ashes in the whole archipelago, I think it highly probable that much the greater part of the tuff has originated from the trituration of fragments of the grey, basaltic lavas in the mouths of craters standing in the sea.

From Scientific American

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

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