FREEZE-DRYING as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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
   Synonym(s)
   • lyophilisation (what does lyophilisation mean?)
   • lyophilization (what does lyophilization mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) freeze-drying is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • freeze (what does freeze mean?)
   • freezing (what does freezing mean?)
   • dehydration (what does dehydration mean?)
   • desiccation (what does desiccation mean?)
   • drying up (what does drying up mean?)
   • evaporation (what does evaporation mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • lyophilize (what does lyophilize mean?)
   • lyophilise (what does lyophilise mean?)
   • lyophilize (what does lyophilize mean?)
   • lyophilise (what does lyophilise mean?)