COLLIQUATION
Noun
colliquation (countable and uncountable, plural colliquations)
The act of becoming liquid; melting.
(medicine) The wasting-away of parts of the body; consumption.
Source: Wiktionary
Col`li*qua"tion, 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". Boyle.
2. (Med.)
Definition: 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.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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