Definition of Demineralization

1. Noun. Abnormal loss of mineral salts (especially from bone).

Exact synonyms: Demineralisation
Generic synonyms: Pathology
Group relationships: Osteomalacia
Derivative terms: Demineralise

2. Noun. The removal of minerals and mineral salts from a liquid (especially from water).
Exact synonyms: Demineralisation
Generic synonyms: Chemical Action, Chemical Change, Chemical Process
Derivative terms: Demineralise, Demineralize

Definition of Demineralization

1. Noun. (chemistry) The chemical engineering process in which mineral salts are removed from a liquid. ¹

2. Noun. (medicine) The loss of minerals, especially those of calcium, from bone. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Demineralization

1. A loss or decrease of the mineral constituents of the body or individual tissues, especially of bone. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Demineralization

demiman
demimen
demimondaines
demimondes
deminatured
demine
demined
deminer
demineralisation
demineralise
demineralised
demineralises
demineralising
demineralization (current term)
demineralizations
demineralize
demineralized
demineralizer
demineralizers
demineralizes
demineralizing
deminers
demines
deminiaturize
demining
demipenniform
demiquaver
demiquavers

Literary usage of Demineralization

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical Organotherapy: The Internal Secretions in General Practice by Henry Robert Harrower (1922)
"... demineralization Query: "Is endocrine dysfunction due to mineral deficiency, or is the mineral deficiency due to improper functioning of the ductless ..."

2. Intestinal auto-intoxication by Adolphe Combe (1908)
"COEFFICIENT OF demineralization Ratio between the Inorganic Substances (Mineral Salts) and the Total Residue This ratio has ..."

3. Diet and Dietetics by Armand Gautier, Alfred James Rice-Oxley (1906)
"Scurvy is again a ma huh of demineralization or perhaps of ... The demineralization of the plasmas acts necessarily on tin- anatomic elements which the ..."

4. Therapeutic Gazette (1917)
"Should this occur, as it commonly does, diarrhea results and demineralization as well as dehydration of the infant's organism progresses with alarming ..."

5. Modern Urinology; a System of Urine Analysis and Diagnosis by Clifford Mitchell (1912)
"Coefficients of demineralization.—Two such coefficients have been calculated, namely (a) that of the ratio of mineral salts to total solids, and (b) that of ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The effect of demineralization at the tooth surface is more evident in a change of the pulse ... Ultrasonic echograms of enamel during demineralization. ..."

7. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1907)
"After the theory of demineralization hi tuberculosis had been put forward, ... demineralization, however, according to this observer, is not a symptom ..."

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