trituration

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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 • Feb. 29, 2016

This opened the possibility that the rough process of trituration was not merely segregating the stem cells from the tissue.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 29, 2016

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

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

He then gave a half-grain dose, three times a day, of the third decimal trituration of the 'Eryngium aquaticum.'

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

Some may be considered as purely mechanical, such as the determination of the weight and bulk of bodies, trituration, levigation, searching, washing, filtration, &c.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine