HyperDic: freeze-drying

English > 1 sense of the word freeze-drying:
NOUNprocessfreeze-drying, lyophilization, lyophilisationa method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure
English > freeze-drying: 1 sense > noun 1, process
MeaningA method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed / warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes.
Synonymslyophilization, lyophilisation
Broaderdehydration, desiccation, drying up, evaporationThe process of extracting moisture
freeze, freezingThe withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid / liquid to a solid
Spanishliofilización
Catalanliofilització

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