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Definition of Decoction

1. Noun. (pharmacology) the extraction of water-soluble drug substances by boiling.

Definition of Decoction

1. n. The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues.

Definition of Decoction

1. Noun. an extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down ¹

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Definition of Decoction

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Medical Definition of Decoction

1. 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) Origin: F. Decoction, L. Decoctio. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decoction

Literary usage of Decoction

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Medical lexicon by Robley Dunglison (1860)
"decoction of red baric, both of which are prepared as above. The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin ... Ä) Thi» decoction has beco considered diuretic 'ind ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1837)
"The utility of the decoction of sarsaparilla and nitric acid, ... decoction of sarsaparilla, given in doses of a pint daily, with a drachm or more of nitric ..."

3. American Druggist (1885)
"The decoction, on the other hand, is primarily for the purpose of extracting mucilaginous, resinous, extractive, and other non-volatile substances. ..."

4. Criminal Abortion: Its Nature, Its Evidence, and Its Law by Horatio Robinson Storer, Franklin Fiske Heard (1868)
"An Infusion or decoction of a Shrub are ejusdem generis. ... 58, § 2, charged the prisoner with having administered to a woman a decoction of a certain ..."

5. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and by Francis Peyre Porcher (1869)
"The decoction of either plant is made with the bruised herb one ounce, water three half pints; boil to one pint; one pint to be given in the twenty-four ..."

6. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1855)
"I then ordered a quarter of a pint daily of the decoction of the urtica dioica, made hy boiling an ounce of the leaves and stems in a quart of water until ..."

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