DECOCTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does decoction mean? 

• DECOCTION (noun)
  The noun DECOCTION has 1 sense:

1. (pharmacology) the extraction of water-soluble drug substances by boiling

  Familiarity information: DECOCTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECOCTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(pharmacology) the extraction of water-soluble drug substances by boiling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("decoction" is a kind of...):

extraction (the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means)

Domain category:

materia medica; pharmacological medicine; pharmacology (the science or study of drugs: their preparation and properties and uses and effects)

Derivation:

decoct (extract the essence of something by boiling it)

 Context examples 

Blue Cohosh is typically in the form of a tincture or a decoction.

(Blue Cohosh Root, NCI Thesaurus)

Nay, but they are not to take in a decoction or in nauseous form, so you need not snub that so charming nose, or I shall point out to my friend Arthur what woes he may have to endure in seeing so much beauty that he so loves so much distort.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)