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

But I have also used the 1st and 2d trituration.

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

The peach-bloom of sensibility is presently rubbed off by constant trituration of harsh utilities.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various