trituration

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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

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

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

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

By experiment, I found a portion of the lower arenaceous part almost completely soluble, in the cold, in nitro-sulphuric acid; and the actual residuum was, in part, owing to a defect in trituration.

From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe