ALCOHOLATE
\ˈalkəhˌɒle͡ɪt], \ˈalkəhˌɒleɪt], \ˈa_l_k_ə_h_ˌɒ_l_eɪ_t]\
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By William R. Warner
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Any one of a class of medicines which differ from alcoholic tinctures, first, in that the solvent contains the volatile principles of medicinal substances, and, second, in the mode of preparation, which consists in impregnating the alcohol with medicinal principles, first by maceration and then by distillation.
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A chemical compound in which one atom of hydrogen in the alcohol is replaced by metal.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).