lyophilization Biol. and Med.
(laɪˌɒfɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən)
[f. lyophile a. + -ization.]
= freeze-drying vbl. n.
| 1938 Jrnl. Allergy X. 3 The chief advantage of lyophilization lies in the means it offers to preserve antibodies and other labile serum components..over extended periods of time. 1949 E. P. Abraham et al. in H. W. Florey et al. Antibiotics II. xv. 638 Solvent transfer and lyophilization still form the basis of all commercial penicillin production, processes. 1958 W. C. Frazier Food Microbiol. xvi. 214 Milk and other liquid dairy products may be dried by lyophilization. 1967 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. V. 164 Lyophilization is probably the gentlest way to dry a tissue and is essential if delicate materials are to be preserved. |