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lyophilisation

lyop·hi·li·sation

uncommon

noun

1.

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

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From lyo- + philos + -isation.

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