What's the difference between elixir and potion?

Elixir


Definition:

  • (n.) A tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form.
  • (n.) An imaginary liquor capable of transmuting metals into gold; also, one for producing life indefinitely; as, elixir vitae, or the elixir of life.
  • (n.) The refined spirit; the quintessence.
  • (n.) Any cordial or substance which invigorates.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet it can never hope to match yes campaigners’ vision, their powerful elixir of hope for a better future, which can spark feelings that are almost religious in their fervour, like the rapture of old Christian belief.
  • (2) Two of the solid composites were prepared from commerical tablets of different dosage and one from commercial timed-release capsules; the fourth sample was an elixir.
  • (3) In a statement to the Guardian this week, Exxon spokesman Richard Keil reiterated: “ExxonMobil does not fund climate denial.” Alec, an ultra-conservative lobby group, has hosted seminars promoting the long-discredited idea that rising carbon dioxide emissions are the “elixir of life”, and was behind legislation banning state planners in North Carolina from considering future sea-level rise.
  • (4) The Nobel Laureate and ex-director of Fermilab, Leon Lederman, described superconductivity as "the elixir to rejuvenate accelerators and open new vistas to the future".
  • (5) Disposition of paracetamol oral elixir was determined in two male patients after administration via feeding jejunostomy and compared with four male controls who received the same dose by mouth.
  • (6) Elixir of this medication should probably be used whenever available.
  • (7) For a good long while, Johnny Depp had a firm grasp on the strange elixir that is Hollywood mojo.
  • (8) Temazepam 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 mg kg-1 in an elixir formulation (Euhypnos Elixir), was compared with trimeprazine tartrate 3 mg kg-1 in a syrup (Vallergan Forte Syrup), as premedication in 220 children (ASA grade I) undergoing tonsillectomy and associated procedures.
  • (9) Mean percentage absorption was estimated to be 63 per cent from tablets and 75 per cent from elixir, but considerable between-subject variation was noted.
  • (10) There was less interindividual variation in bioavailability with the complex than with the elixir.
  • (11) Radioisotopic studies in 9 volunteers demonstrated a three-fold higher absorption of GDS iron compared with ferrous sulphate elixir.
  • (12) The method has been validated for use with elixirs containing 120 mg of acetaminophen, 12 mg of codeine phosphate and 7.5 mg sodium benzoate preservative per 5 ml.
  • (13) of potassium chloride 10 percent elixir daily for successful treatment of thiazide-induced hypokalemia.
  • (14) Perhaps we should bottle it as some sort of pro-phylactic elixir.
  • (15) It’s the broadest list I have seen of one company funding so many nodes in the denial machine.” Among Peabody’s beneficiaries, the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change has insisted – wrongly – that carbon emissions are not a threat but “the elixir of life” while the American Legislative Exchange Council is trying to overturn Environmental Protection Agency rules cutting emissions from power plants.
  • (16) Amoxicillin-clavulante, cefuroxime axetil (no elixir form available) or cefixime may then be tried keeping in mind relative costs, side effects, dosing frequency and drug formulation.
  • (17) (Brief highlights reel: writing his own computer games aged eight; reaching chess master status at 13; creating Theme Park , one of the first video games to incorporate AI, at 17; taking a double first in computer science from Cambridge at 20; founding his own groundbreaking video-games company, Elixir, soon after; and doing pioneering academic work on the hippocampus and episodic memory as “the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle”, before founding DeepMind in 2011.)
  • (18) Everyone is hunting the magic elixir to revive rapid growth.
  • (19) out-patient department and the drugs were prescribed as clemastine elixir (0.5 mg.
  • (20) The bioavailability of papaverine, administered as sustained release capsules, an elixir, and soft gelatin capsules, was studied with volunteers.

Potion


Definition:

  • (n.) A draught; a dose; usually, a draught or dose of a liquid medicine.
  • (v. t.) To drug.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From the beginning of time, man has had the instinct to pour things in wounds to kill microorganisms and enhance healing, and..... "wounds are still lathered, bathed, and sprayed with various notions, potions, and lotions".
  • (2) Dynamics of nonachlazine, a new anti-anginal agent, distribution in organs following its single and repeated introduction in the form of a potion and aqueous solution was studied in tests with albino rats.
  • (3) The peculiar thing about the opera is that the back story – war, slayings, the murder of the Irish princess Isolde's betrothed by the Cornish knight Tristan, her determination to kill the latter, her failure to do so, the way she healed Tristan's wounds and kept his identity secret – is more interesting than the story itself, which revolves around the pair not quite being able to make love despite drinking a love potion (substituted by Isolde's lady-in-waiting Brangäne for the poison with which Isolde intended to kill both Tristan and herself as they journeyed to Cornwall, where she was to marry boring old King Marke).
  • (4) Despite encouraging results, the author concludes that, at present, hypertonic saline cannot be considered a truly "magic potion" for resuscitation of the trauma patient.
  • (5) By transfecting murine type I IL-1R cDNA into a human Jurkat cell line, structural and functional potion required for the IL-1 signal transduction is determined.
  • (6) It is not unusual to have to treat a sick Zulu 1st for the effects of a witchdoctor's potions and only subsequently for the original complaint.
  • (7) We studied one type of treatment carried out in groups of about 10 to 12 'patients', where the healer makes a magical diagnosis and provides a potion, usually ayahuasca (active hallucinogenic agent: harmine) which is drunk by the witch doctor, his assistant and the patients.
  • (8) He also stated that servers could charge players for entry, and for personalisation items like cool hats and silly pets, but could not charge for items that would affect gameplay, such as powerful swords or potions.
  • (9) Two electrodes were sown each to the serosal surface of the interposed segment of the jejunum, duodenum, and distal potion of the jejunum, respectively.
  • (10) To gain more insight into this problem, it is proposed that chemical analyses and toxicological studies be carried out on each ingredient individually, then on combinations of ingredients contained in these Voodoo potions.
  • (11) Quackery has for centuries used aphrodisiacs to exploit vulnerable victims, 30% of whom, through the power of suggestion, have achieved sexual success from potions, powders and genital pomades.
  • (12) He does not swear much in the early rounds of any tournament but gives full vent to his passion when it matters, as if he has been building it up on purpose, like a magic potion.
  • (13) But, being deficient in magic potion, we have precious little chance of stopping it.
  • (14) However, referendums are by no means a magical potion.
  • (15) Potions from plants, now known to contain scopolamine, were used in antiquity and the middle ages.
  • (16) Greedy relatives will press the potion on their parents, eager for the inheritance or just to be rid of the muddles and puddles of the decrepit.
  • (17) Pokestops provide the resources of the game: find one, tap it, and you get items like pokeballs, potions and revives.
  • (18) Yet many proprietary potions did not actually terminate pregnancies.
  • (19) Patients were often cured by potions or ointments containing mercury if used from the onset of symptoms.
  • (20) Herbal potions are also used by the Igbo traditional midwife to induce labor and to treat ailments such as generalized bodily edema.