Medical Definition of Dry distillation

1. Submission of an organic substance to heat in a closed vessel so that oxygen is absent and combustion prevented, with the objective of effecting its decomposition with release of volatile constituents and the formation of new substances. Synonym: destructive distillation. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dry Distillation

dry bronchiectasis
dry bulb temperature
dry cell
dry cell battery
dry cereal
dry clean
dry cleaned
dry cleaner
dry cleaners
dry cleaning
dry cleans
dry cough
dry cup
dry cutaneous leishmaniasis
dry distillation (current term)
dry dock
dry dressing
dry drowning
dry drunk
dry drunks
dry eye
dry eye syndrome
dry eye syndromes
dry film thickness
dry fire
dry fired
dry fires
dry firing
dry flies

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