What's the difference between caudle and posset?

Caudle


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of warm drink for sick persons, being a mixture of wine with eggs, bread, sugar, and spices.
  • (v. t.) To make into caudle.
  • (v. t.) Too serve as a caudle to; to refresh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three methods of sacro-pelvis fixation were evaluated: iliosacral screws, sacral screws, and a technique whereby the caudle ends of the Cotrel-Dubousset rods were fashioned and inserted into the posterior iliac crest using the Galveston technique.
  • (2) 246: 508-513, 1988b) showed that the polysynaptic unmyelinated pathway (C-fibers) was greatly enhanced by dynorphin treatment and that this pathway was the locus of excitotoxicity (Caudle and Isaac, Brain Res.

Posset


Definition:

  • (n.) A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, as by wine, etc., -- much in favor formerly.
  • (v. t.) To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate; as, to posset the blood.
  • (v. t.) To treat with possets; to pamper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There were no differences in vomiting, posseting, or bowel habit between the groups.

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