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trituration

[trich-uh-rey-shuhn] / ˌtrɪtʃ əˈreɪ ʃən /


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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

Boerhaave endeavoured to reconcile the opinions of the concocters and grinders, by combining the supposed theory of concoction and trituration.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

This cascarilla is formed by the trituration of egg-shells; and the oval faces whitened with it resemble a larger egg, with features drawn on it in black and red.

From A Trip to Cuba by Julia Ward Howe




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