Home → Medical Dictionary → I → inspissation

Print Save or Share
Medical Term:

inspissation

Pronunciation: in′spi-sā′shŭn

Definition:

  1. The act of thickening or condensing, as by evaporation or absorption of fluid.
  2. An increased thickening or diminished fluidity.

[L. in, intensive, + spisso, pp. -atus, to thicken]

Search Stedman's Medical Dictionary

Examples: glitazone, GI cocktail, etc.

Advertisement
Close

Recommended

(web4)