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Colliquation   Listen
noun
Colliquation  n.  
1.
A melting together; the act of melting; fusion. "When sand and ashes are well melted together and suffered to cool, there is generated, by the colliquation, that sort of concretion we call "glass"."
2.
(Med.) A processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages. (Obs.)





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... and hot Countries; and that he can affirm, from his own Experience in hot Climates, that many Diarrhoeas and other Complaints, the pure and sole Effect of an unusual and great Heat (relaxing the System of the Solids, and occasioning a Colliquation of the Animal Juices), have not only been cured by cold Bathing; but their Return, and even the Attack of such Diseases, effectually prevented by it. Ibid. ...
— An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany • Donald Monro


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