compounding
复方制剂,复式,复合,复方
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Definitions
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- : composed of two or more parts, elements, or ingredients: Soap is a compound substance.
- : having or involving two or more actions or functions: The mouth is a compound organ.
- : Grammar. of or relating to a compound sentence or compound-complex sentence.
- : consisting of two or more parts that are also bases, forming a compound noun,compound adjective,compound verb, or compound preposition, as housetop, many-sided, playact, or upon.consisting of any two or more parts that have identifiable meaning, as a base and a noninflectional affix, a base and a combining form, two combining forms, or a combining form and a noninflectional affix.
- : consisting of an auxiliary verb and a main verb, as are swimming, have spoken, or will write.
- : Botany. composed of several similar parts that combine to form a whole: a compound fruit.
- : Zoology. composed of a number of distinct individuals that are connected to form a united whole or colony, as coral.
- : Music. of or relating to compound time.
- : Machinery. noting an engine or turbine expanding the same steam or the like in two successive chambers to do work at two ranges of pressure.
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- : something formed by compounding or combining parts, elements, etc.
- : Chemistry. a pure substance composed of two or more elements whose composition is constant.
- : a compound word, especially one composed of two or more words that are otherwise unaltered, as moonflower or rainstorm.
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- : to put together into a whole; combine:to compound drugs to form a new medicine.
- : to make or form by combining parts, elements, etc.; construct: to compound a new plan from parts of several former plans.
- : to make up or constitute: all the organs and members that compound a human body.
- : to settle or adjust by agreement, especially for a reduced amount, as a debt.
- : Law. to agree, for a consideration, not to prosecute or punish a wrongdoer for: to compound a crime or felony.
- : to pay on the accrued interest as well as the principal: My bank compounds interest quarterly.
- : to increase or add to: The misery of his loneliness was now compounded by his poverty.
- : Electricity. to connect a portion of the field turns of in series with the armature circuit.
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- : to make a bargain; come to terms; compromise.
- : to settle a debt, claim, etc., by compromise.
- : to form a compound.
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Examples
That means it will need to get pentobarbital from a compounding pharmacy, another source of concern, experts say.
Compounding this issue is that there are few positive images of Muslims or Muslim Americans in American entertainment media.
Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
Compounding the conundrum further is the fact that many cellphones allow direct access to information in remote cloud storage.
Compounding this is the fact that Bab al-Salameh, while significantly safer than most other areas, is still in a war zone.
The doctor was alone in it, and stood compounding pills behind the counter.
So that, like acetanilid, the old argument of the nostrum men that the preparation needs skill in compounding will not hold.
In this way all danger of causing the broken bones to protrude and thus "compounding" the fracture is also avoided.
These languages have always found it easier to create new words by compounding afresh elements ready to hand.
The prescription for compounding that mixture could obviously be learned by nothing but experiment.