Medical Definition of Pilula
1. A pill or pilule. Origin: L. Dim. Of pila, a ball (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilula
Literary usage of Pilula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science; Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1874)
"Medicines arc often given in the form of pill, on account of their disagreeable
taste and odor, and for the like reason pills are now sugar-coated. pilula ..."
2. A handbook of therapeutics by Sydney Ringer (1873)
"pilula Aloes Barbadensis pilula Aloes et ... 3 gr. to 8 gr. 5 gr. to 10 gr. 5 gr.
to 10 gr. 3 gr. to 5 gr. pilula ..."
3. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science; Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1854)
"PILL, pilula —p. Abernethy's, see pilulas hy- ... p. of Aloes and cinchona,
pilula: aloes et ... p. of mild chloride of Mercury, pilula) ..."
4. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1878)
"... pilula, which he gave to it " from the fact that she fortifies the gelatinous
basis of the theca with her own excremental pilules. ..."
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