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Decoction
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What's The Definition Of Decoction?
[n] (pharmacology) the extraction by boiling of water-soluble drug substances
Synonyms | Synonyms for Decoction: Related Terms | Find terms related to Decoction: boil | boiling | brew | chemical solution | coction | combination | composition | concentrate | concentration | concoction | confection | decoctum | distillate | distillation | ebullience | ebulliency | ebulliometer | ebullition | elixir | essence | expression | extract | extraction | imbuement | impregnation | infiltration | infusion | instillation | instillment | interpenetration | leach | leachate | lixivium | marination | mixture | penetration | permeation | pervasion | pressing | purification | quintessence | refinement | rendering | rendition | saturation | seething | simmer | simmering | soaking | solution | spirit | squeezing | steeping | stewing | suffusion See Also | boiling | simmering | stewing Decoction In Webster's Dictionary \De*coc"tion\, n. [F. d['e]coction, L. decoctio.]
1. The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid
to extract its virtues.
In decoction . . . it either purgeth at the top or
settleth at the bottom. --Bacon.
2. An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.
If the plant be boiled in water, the strained liquor
is called the decoction of the plant. --Arbuthnot.
In pharmacy decoction is opposed to infusion, where
there is merely steeping. --Latham.
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