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The amount of the last ingredient in a recipe or prescription required to make it up to the required quantity of a mixture.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from Latin quantum sufficit (“as much as is required”), then clipped to only the first syllable of each word.
