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dehydration

DEFINITIONS OF: dehydration

1

n the process of extracting moisture

Synonyms:
desiccation, drying up, evaporation
Types:
freeze-drying, lyophilisation, 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
inspissation
the process of thickening by dehydration
Type of:
extraction
the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means

n dryness resulting from the removal of water

Synonyms:
desiccation
Type of:
dryness, waterlessness, xerotes
the condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water)

n depletion of bodily fluids

Type of:
thirst, thirstiness
a physiological need to drink
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