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

Fari�na, a term given to a soft, tasteless, and commonly white powder, obtained by trituration of the seeds of cereal and leguminous plants, and of some roots, as the potato.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various

The patient received the remedy in doses of the 1st centesimal trituration, every evening and morning, as much as a point of a knife blade would hold.

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