Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process, operation, or method of determining the concentration of a substance in solution by adding to it a standard reagent of known concentration in carefully measured amounts until a reaction of definite and known proportion is completed, usually as shown by a color change or by electrical measurement, and then calculating the unknown concentration.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In analytical chem., a process for ascertaining the quantity of any given constituent present in a compound by observing the quantity of a liquid of known strength (called a standard solution) necessary to convert the constituent into another form, the close of the reaction being marked by some definite phenomenon, usually a change of color or the formation of a precipitate. Also called
volumetric analysis .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) The act or process of titrating; a substance obtained by titrating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun analytical chemistry The
determination of theconcentration of somesubstance in asolution by slowly adding measured amounts of some other substance (normally using aburette ) until areaction is shown to becomplete , for instance by the colour change of anindicator .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a measured amount of a solution of unknown concentration is added to a known volume of a second solution until the reaction between them is just complete; the concentration of the unknown solution (the titer) can then be calculated
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Examples
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The term titration is occasionally used informally to suggest extreme precision in some sort of measurement or determination.
titration 2002
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Medical doctors use the term titration to describe the process of adjusting the standard dosage of a medication up or down based on an individual patient’s reactions.
THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2001
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Medical doctors use the term titration to describe the process of adjusting the standard dosage of a medication up or down based on an individual patient’s reactions.
THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2001
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In this study, 57 percent of the patients who entered the open-label titration period were able to titrate to and tolerate the adverse effects of
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In this study, 53 percent of the patients who entered the open-label titration period were able to titrate to a tolerable and effective dose and were randomized into a 12-week, double-blind treatment period.
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Both of the pivotal clinical studies enrolled adult patients with moderate to severe chronic low back pain and included open-label titration periods followed by randomized, double-blind, 12-week study periods.
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In this study, 57 percent of the patients who entered the open-label titration period were able to titrate to and tolerate the adverse effects of
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Twelve percent of patients discontinued due to an adverse event, and 21 percent discontinued due to lack of a therapeutic effect during the open-label titration period.
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Twenty three percent of patients discontinued due to an adverse event and 14 percent discontinued due to lack of a therapeutic effect from the open-label titration period.
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Twelve percent of patients discontinued due to an adverse event and 21 percent discontinued due to lack of a therapeutic effect during the open-label titration period.
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