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
In the graminivorous birds, the walls of this cavity are very thick and muscular, and clothed internally with a strong, horny epithelium, serving for the trituration of the food.
From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Robert Jennings
The rotary motion of millstones became the essential principle of the trituration of grain, and exists to-day in the rolls of the roller mill.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
