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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: menstruum (0.02529 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to menstruum.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: menstruum
menstruum
n 1: (archaic) a solvent
2: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of
nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause;
“the women
were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation”;
“a
woman does not take the gout unless her menses be
stopped”--Hippocrates;
“the semen begins to appear in
males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the
catamenia begin to flow in females”--Aristotle [syn:
menstruation,
menses,
catamenia,
period,
flow]
[also:
menstrua (pl)]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Menstruum
Menstruum
\Men"stru*um\, n.; pl. E.
Menstruums, L.
Menstrua.
[L. menstruus. See
Menstruous.]
Any substance which dissolves a solid body; a solvent.
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The proper menstruum to dissolve metal. --Bacon.
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All liquors are called menstruums which are used as
dissolvents, or to extract the virtues of ingredients
by infusion or decoction. --Quincy.
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Note: The use is supposed to have originated in some notion
of the old chemists about the influence of the moon in
the preparation of dissolvents. --Johnson.
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