- insuccation
- Maceration or soaking, especially of a crude drug to prepare it for further pharmaceutical operation. [L. insuco, pp. -atus, to soak in, fr. in, in, + sucus, juice, sap (improp. succ-)]
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in·suc·ca·tion (in″sə-kaґshən) [L. insuccare to soak in] the thorough soaking of a drug before preparing an extract from it.
Medical dictionary. 2011.