Noun: lyophilisation lI,ó-fu-lu'zey-shun [N. Amer], lI,ó-fu-lI'zey-shun [Brit]
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: lyophilization)
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: 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
"lyophilisation is often used to preserve food for camping and emergency supplies";
- freeze-drying, lyophilization
Derived forms: lyophilisations
Type of: dehydration, desiccation, drying up, evaporation, freeze, freezing
Encyclopedia: Lyophilisation