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Webster 1913 Edition


Troche

Tro′che

(trō′kē)
,
Noun.
[Gr.
τροχόσ
anything round or circular, a wheel, properly, a runner, fr.
τρέχειν
to run. Cf.
Trochee
.]
(Pharm.)
A medicinal tablet or lozenge; strictly, one of circular form.

Webster 1828 Edition


Troche

TRO'CHE

,
Noun.
[Gr. a wheel.] A form of medicine in a cake or tablet, or a stiff paste cut into proper portions and dried. It is made by mixing the medicine with sugar and the mucilage of gum tragacanth, intended to be gradually dissolved in the mouth and slowly swallowed, as a demulcent to sheath the epiglottis, and as a remedy for the bronchocele.

Definition 2024


troche

troche

See also: trochę

English

Noun

troche (plural troches)

  1. A lozenge; a cough drop.

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Latin

Noun

troche

  1. vocative singular of trochus