Associations to the word «Coction»

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Wiktionary

COCTION, noun. (obsolete) An act of boiling.
COCTION, noun. (medicine) (obsolete) digestion
COCTION, noun. (obsolete) The change which the humoralists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.

Wise words

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