incrassation

incrassation
a) The process of thickening.
b) A thickening or swelling.

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  • Incrassation — In cras*sa tion, n. [Cf. F. incrassation.] [1913 Webster] 1. The act or process of thickening or making thick; the process of becoming thick or thicker. [1913 Webster] 2. The state of being incrassated or made thick; inspissation. Sir T. Browne.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • incrassation — noun see incrassate I …   Useful english dictionary

  • incrassate — incrassation, n. incrassative, adj. v. /in kras ayt/; adj. /in kras it, ayt/, v., incrassated, incrassating, adj. v.t. 1. Pharm. to make (a liquid) thicker by addition of another substance or by evaporation. adj. 2. Also, incrassated. Bot.,… …   Universalium

  • Incrassiren — (v. lat.), verdicken, verdichten (bes. das Blut). Daher Incrassation, Verdickung, Verdichtung …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Incrassantia — Incrassantia, lat., Heilmittel, welche die Säfte verdicken sollen; Incrassation, Verdickung, incrassiren, verdicken …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • pastiness — Synonyms and related words: adhesiveness, anemia, ashiness, bloodlessness, cadaverousness, chloranemia, clabbering, clamminess, clotting, coagulation, colloidality, curdling, deathly hue, deathly pallor, dimness, doughiness, dullness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • tenacity — Synonyms and related words: adhesiveness, application, assiduity, assiduousness, balkiness, bigotry, bottling up, bulldog courage, bulldog tenacity, bullheadedness, clabbering, clamminess, cling, clotting, coagulation, cohesiveness, colloidality …   Moby Thesaurus

  • thickening — Synonyms and related words: adhesiveness, clabbering, clamminess, clotting, coagulation, colloidality, concretion, congealment, congelation, curdling, doughiness, gelatination, gelatinity, gelatinization, gelatinousness, gelling, gluelikeness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • thickness — Synonyms and related words: adhesiveness, band, bed, bedding, belt, bodily size, body, bulk, cacophony, clabbering, clamminess, closeness, clotting, coagulation, coarseness, colloidality, compactness, congestedness, congestion, consistence,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • toughness — Synonyms and related words: Spartanism, abstruseness, adamantness, adhesiveness, arduousness, astringency, austerity, authoritarianism, backbone, body, bothersomeness, bottom, bullheadedness, burdensomeness, callosity, callousness, chutzpah,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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