triturate
verbEtymology Borrowed from Latin trītūrāre (“thresh”).
1
To grind to a fine powder, to pulverize.
2
To mix two solid reactants by repeated grinding and stirring.
3
To break up biological tissue into individual cells via passage through a narrow opening such as a hypodermic needle.
- Just over the external jugular vein there were two punctures, not large, but not wholesome-looking. There was no sign of disease, but the edges were white and worn-looking, as if by some trituration.1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- triturable
- Related terms
- tritorium, triturable, triturated, trituration, triturator, triture