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Definition of Demineralization
1. Noun. Abnormal loss of mineral salts (especially from bone).
Generic synonyms: Pathology
Group relationships: Osteomalacia
Derivative terms: Demineralise
2. Noun. The removal of minerals and mineral salts from a liquid (especially from water).
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
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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