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Definition of Exsiccation
1. n. The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness.
Definition of Exsiccation
1. Noun. The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture. ¹
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Definition of Exsiccation
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Medical Definition of Exsiccation
1. Synonym: desiccation. 2. The removal of water of crystallization. Synonym: dehydration. Origin: L. Ex sicco, pp. Siccatus, to dry up (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exsiccation
Literary usage of Exsiccation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Pharmacy by Henry Vinecome Arny (1917)
"CHAPTER IX PRECIPITATION, CRYSTALLIZATION, GRANULATION, exsiccation, AND DIALYSIS
PRECIPITATION PRECIPITATION is the process of separating a solid from its ..."
2. The Rules of aseptic and antiseptic surgery: A Practical Treatise for the by Arpad Geyza Gerster (1890)
"CHEMICAL STERILIZATION COMBINED WITH exsiccation. DRY DRESSINGS.—In extensive
injuries or large operation wounds the amount of oozing is generally so large ..."
3. Handbook of Pharmacy by Virgil Coblentz (1895)
"exsiccation consists in depriving crystalline salts of their water of crystallization.
Such salts as contain a large amount of crystal water, as potassium ..."
4. Essentials of practice of pharmacy: Arranged in the Form of Questions and by Lucius Elmer Sayre (1894)
"How may the processes used in pharmacy be subdivided ? PHYSICAL
PROCESSES.—Desiccation (exsiccation) ; Comminution ; sifting, etc. ..."
5. The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries and Improvements (1821)
"... Lombard-street, London, Chemist and Druggist; for improved Apparatus for
Distillation, Evaporation, and exsiccation, and for tht Preparation of Colours. ..."
6. Inorganic General, Medical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Theoretical and by Oscar Oldberg (1900)
"It is generally (but not always) advantageous to reduce crystallized salts to
coarse powder before they are subjected to exsiccation. In some cases a softer ..."
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