What does the word solution mean?
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1. The termination of a disease by crisis. 2. A break, cut, or laceration of the solid tissues, used in the term, solution of continuity. 3. The incorporation of a solid or a gas in a fluid substance, the resultant being a homogeneous liquid; cf. dispersion and suspension. 4. Specifically, in pharmacy, an aqueous solution of a non- volatile substance. In the language of the Pharmacopoeia, an aqueous solution of a non- volatile substance is called a solution or liquor; an aqueous solution of a volatile substance is a water or aqua; an alcoholic solution of a non- volatile substance is a tincture or tinctura; an alcoholic solution of a volatile substance is a spirit or spiritus; a solution in vinegar is a vinegar or acetum; a solution in glycerin is a glycerite or glyceritum; a solution in wine is a wine or vinum; a solution of sugar in water is a, syrup or syrupus; a solution of a mucilaginous substance is a mucilage or mucilago; a solution of an alkaloid or metallic oxide in oleic acid is an oleate or oleatum.
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An operation which consists in dissolving a solid body in a menstruum. Likewise, the product of such operation, - Solu'tum, ( F.) Solute. It means, also, with many, the termination of a disease :-with others, a termination accompanied by critical signs; - and, with others, again, it is synonymous with crisis.
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[ Latin] A loosening or separation; as S. of continuity, S. of contiguity( see Continuity, Contiguity).
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[ Latin] Specifically, of the U. S., an aqueous s. of a non-volatile substance, or one not obtained by distillation( cf. Aqua).
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What an easy solution of the problem! – The Dop Doctor by Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
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