Medical Dictionary

dispersed phase

noun

Medical Definition of DISPERSED PHASE

:  the phase in a two-phase system that consists of finely divided particles (as colloidal particles), droplets, or bubbles of one substance distributed through another substance—called also discontinuous phase, internal phase

Variants of DISPERSED PHASE

dispersed phase or disperse phase

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