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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Decoction (0.00929 detik)
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Definition: decoction
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: decoction
decoction
n : (pharmacology) the extraction by boiling of water-soluble
drug substances
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Decoction
Decoction
\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.
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In decoction . . . it either purgeth at the top or
settleth at the bottom. --Bacon.
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2. An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.
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If the plant be boiled in water, the strained liquor
is called the decoction of the plant. --Arbuthnot.
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In pharmacy decoction is opposed to infusion, where
there is merely steeping. --Latham.
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