Definition of "succus" []

• A fluid, such as gastric juice or vegetable juice, contained in or secreted by living tissue. (noun)

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• "Some rather use potions than pills to purge this humour, because that as Heurnius and Crato observe, hic succus a sicco remedio agre trahitur, this juice is not so easily drawn by dry remedies, and as Montanus adviseth 25 cons."
• "Wecker, Melancholicus succus toto corpore redundans."
• "Note 40: Goulburn, Losinga, 2: 30: "Discebant iudaeorum liberi christianas litteras, et veritatis succus teneris iudaeorum mentibus paulatim infundebatur." back"