See also: incorporation. INFUSION, med. jur. A pharmaceutical operation, which consists in pouring a hot or cold fluid upon a substance, whose medical properties it is desired to extract. Infusion is also used for the product of this operation.
A proportion is an equation with a ratio on each side. It is a statement that two ratios are equal. 3/4 = 6/8 is an example of a proportion. When one of the four numbers in a proportion is unknown, cross products may be used to find the unknown number.
(cell membrane). Ratios make comparisons between two things, a ratio of 1:5 means that the second number is 5 times as large as the first number. Or for example of the ratio of flour to water in a recipe is 2:1 then there is twice as much flour as water in the recipe. 2.