What's the difference between coction and coition?

Coction


Definition:

  • (n.) Act of boiling.
  • (n.) Digestion.
  • (n.) The change which the humorists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.

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Coition


Definition:

  • (n.) A coming together; sexual intercourse; copulation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The spermatozoa were from three experiments: 1) incubation in Hepes buffer, 2) natural coition, and 3) insemination.
  • (2) Canine chastity belt In 1903, German Baroness Margarethe Johanne Christianne Marie von Heyden and her husband, anxious to maintain the purity of the pedigree of their dogs, designed a device to prevent "coition in the case of bitches and other female animals more particularly for the purpose of preventing cross-breeding".
  • (3) Theoretically, in female circumcision the genital scaring and dyspareunia may lead to genital ulceration and anal coition, which are co-factors in HIV transmission.
  • (4) Homologous matings showed that the two lines behaved differently before and during coition and that a mixture of the two behaviour patterns occurred in heterologous crossings.
  • (5) Different preparations of Ruta graveolens were administered orally to female rats (Days 1-10 post coition) and female hamsters (Days 1-6 post coition).

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