The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mistura
Mistura \Mis*tu"ra\, n. [L. See Mixture.] (Med.)
A mingled compound in which different ingredients are contained in a liquid state; a mixture. See Mixture, n., 4.
Sometimes, a liquid medicine containing very active substances, and which can only be administered by drops.
--Dunglison.
Usage examples of "mistura".
Acacia Mixture, Mistura Acaciae of the British Pharmacopoeia Codex, is made from Gum Acacia (6 in 100) with syrup and diluted orange- flower water, employed as a demulcent in cough syrups and linctures.
I have no bark, no electuaries, no antimony, no - in short, I have nothing but my venereals and a little alba mistura, or eye-wash - a very little alba mistura - and therefore cannot answer for my three-score convalescents, at all.