Meanings
troche1
plural troches
- A lozenge; a cough drop.
The troches are weighed and the average weight per troche for that base is calculated.
2015, Robert P. Shrewsbury, Applied Pharmaceutics in Contemporary Compounding, page 2152 more examples
At night when you go to bed, take two drams of fine Gum Tragecanth, put it into a Galli-pot, and put half a quarter of a pint of any distilling water fitting the purpose you would make your Troches for, to it, cover it, and the next morning you shall finde it in such a Jelly as Physician, call Mussilage, with this you may (with a little pains taking) make any Pouder into Paste, and that Paste into little Cakes called Troches.
1652, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician, page 260The Germ. Pharm. states that the troches (pastilles) are to be made by compression or by massing with a suitable excipient, and forming into troches.
1909, A. Emil Hiss, The International Formulary, volume 1, page 515
Troche2
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
- Ancient Greekτροχός“wheel”
- Ancient Greekτρόχισκος“a small ball”
- Englishtroche
Medical English got troche and trochiscus from late Latin trochiscus; from Ancient Greek τρόχισκος (trókhiskos, “a small ball”), ultimately from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós, “wheel”).
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troche. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/troche
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