LYOPHILISE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does lyophilise mean?

• LYOPHILISE (verb)
The verb LYOPHILISE has 1 sense:

1. to dry (blood, serum, or tissue) by freezing in a high vacuum

Familiarity information: LYOPHILISE used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• LYOPHILISE (verb)

Conjugation:

Present simple: I / you / we / they lyophilise

... he / she / it lyophilises

Past simple: lyophilised

Past participle: lyophilised

-ing form: lyophilising

Sense 1

Meaning:

To dry (blood, serum, or tissue) by freezing in a high vacuum

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

lyophilise; lyophilize

Hypernyms (to "lyophilise" is one way to...):

freeze-dry (preserve by rapid freezing and subsequently drying in a vacuum)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

lyophilisation (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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