lyophilization
a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes • Syn: freeze-drying, lyophilisation • Derivationally related forms: lyophilise (for: lyophilisation), lyophilize • Hypernyms: freeze, freezing, dehydration, desiccation, drying up, evaporation
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