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Hastily, he scraped a flat-edged scalpel along a tissue sample, hoping for maximum abrasion, and triturated the results.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 29, 2016

The domes of triturated and plastered clay which cover their nests may rise to a height of five metres; that is to say, to dimensions equal to one thousand times the length of the worker.

From The Industries of Animals by Houssay, Frédéric

Preparation.—The fresh milk from a bitch is triturated in the usual way.

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

Its union with the vegetable acid, when triturated with manna, is said to compose Keyser's Pill.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

The wheat berry being broken up and triturated in one operation, the flour necessarily contained a large proportion of branny particles in which cerealin, an active diastasic constituent, was present in very sensible proportions.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various