coct-, cocto- +
(Latin: to cook, to boil; to prepare; to digest)
coction
1. The act of cooking, boiling, or altering a substance by applying heat.
2. An old term for "digestion".
coctoantigen
An antigen (substance that is capable of causing the production of an antibody) that has been heated.
coctoimmunogen
A heated immunogen (a substance that can prompt a response from the immune system).
concoct, concocts
1. To prepare by mixing ingredients, as in cooking; to make a concoction (of) by mixing.
2. To devise, using skill and intelligence; contrive: "He tried to concoct a mystery story."
3. To think up a story or plan; especially, something ingenious or imaginative.
4. To make up or to prepare (artificially) by mixing a variety of ingredients; now especially, of a soup, a drink, or the like.
5. To make up, to devise, or to plan by concert, or by artificial combination; to put together, to make up, or to fabricate (a story, project, fraud, etc.).
concocted
1. Having made something, usually food, by adding several different parts together, often in a way that is original or not planned.
2. Prepared or brought to perfection by heat; digested; ripened, matured; planned, contrived; fabricated.
concocter, concoctor
1. Someone who makes something; especially, ingeniously from a variety of ingredients.
Thesaurus: contrive, invent, devise, formulate, fabricate, plan, develop.
2. An inventor of (a story, excuse, etc).
concoctible
1. Capable of being concocted.
2. Digestible.
concoction
1. Something made ingeniously from a variety of ingredients.
2. Any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients; a mixture.
3. An occurrence of an unusual mixture.
4. The invention of a scheme or story to suit some purpose: "His testimony was a concoction of lies and half truths."
5. The act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup, etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components.
6. A medicinal formulatin of several ingredients, the combination of which is used to achieve some therapeutic objective.
7. The process of digestion.
concoctive
Pertaining to or referring to the concoction of a mixture, a story, etc.
decoct
1. To extract the flavor of by boiling.
2. To make concentrated; to boil down.
3. To extract the essence or active ingredient from a substance by boiling it.
4. Etymology: from Middle English decocten, "to boil", from Latin decoquere, decoct-, "to boil down" or "to boil away"; from de-, "down, away" + coquere, "to boil, to cook".
decoctible
Capable of being boiled or digested.
decoction, decocture
1. The extraction of an essence or active ingredient from a substance by boiling.
2. A concentrated substance that results from decoction, or boiling.
3. Water in which a crude vegetable drug has been boiled and which therefore contains the constituents or principles of the substance soluble in boiling water.
4. The act or process of boiling resulting in a medicine or other substance prepared by boiling.
decoctum
A liquid preparation made by boiling a medicinal plant with water usually in the proportion of five parts of the drug to 100 parts of water.
deconcoct
1. To decompose.
2. According to earlier physiological notions: To reduce (imperfectly concocted humurs or ill digested food) by further digestion.
excoct
1. To boil out.
2. To produce by boiling.
Closely related to the
coqu-, cocu- family of "to cook, to ripen" words.