troche - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
Noun
troche (plural troches)
- A lozenge; a cough drop.
- ✤ At night when you go to bed, take two drams of fine Gum Tragecanth, put it into a Galli-pot, and put half a quarter of a pint of any distilling water fitting the purpose you would make your Troches for, to it, cover it, and the next morning you shall finde it in such a Jelly as Physician, call Mussilage, with this you may (with a little pains taking) make any Pouder into Paste, and that Paste into little Cakes called Troches.1
- ✤ The Germ. Pharm. states that the troches (pastilles) are to be made by compression or by massing with a suitable excipient, and forming into troches.2
- ✤ The troches are weighed and the average weight per troche for that base is calculated.3
Etymology
Medical English got troche and trochiscus from late Latin trochiscus; from Ancient Greek τρόχισκος (trókhiskos, “a small ball”), ultimately from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós, “wheel”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA: /ˈtɹoʊ.ki/
- Homophone: trochee
- Rhymes: -əʊki
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtɹəʊʃ/
- Audio (Southern England): 🔊
- Rhymes: -əʊʃ
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