Definition of Pilular

1. a. Of or pertaining to pills; resembling a pill or pills; as, a pilular mass.

Definition of Pilular

1. Adjective. Of or relating to pills. ¹

2. Adjective. Resembling a pill or pills. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pilular

1. pilule [adj] - See also: pilule

Medical Definition of Pilular

1. Relating to a pill. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilular

pilotless
pilotless aircraft
pilotman
pilotmen
pilots
pilous
pilow
pilows
pilpul
pilsener
pilseners
pilsenite
pilsner
pilsners
pilula
pilular (current term)
pilulas
pilule
pilules
pilulous
pilum
pilwe
pilwes
pily
pim 1
pimaric
pimaric acid
pimaricin

Literary usage of Pilular

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lippincott's Medical dictionary: A Complete Vocabulary of the Terms Used in by Ryland W. Greene, Joseph Thomas (1906)
"This is a convenient preparation for administering opium in a pilular and readily soluble form in fractions of a grain. The name Beems to have been intended ..."

2. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1905)
"... mix the residue with the reserved portion, and evaporate, at or below the above mentioned temperature, to a pilular consistence"—(USP). ..."

3. A Complete pronouncing medical dictionary by Joseph Thomas (1885)
"Beat them together Tth inter su as to form a pilular mass. ... Beat them together with water, so as to та a pilular mass, and divide into twenty-four l». ..."

4. A Treatise on Pharmacy for Students and Pharmacists by Charles Caspari, Evander Francis Kelly (1920)
"While the Pharmacopoeia and National Formulary state that pilular extracts are solid or semisolid products, and that powdered extracts differ from the ..."

5. The Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America: (The United States by United States Pharmacopoeial Convention (1820)
"pilular extracts are extensively used in pill masses and in ointment and, to facilitate their use in these preparations, the degree of concentra, ..."

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