1. A method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes
   - freeze-drying, lyophilisation [Brit]

Derived forms: lyophilizations

See also: lyophilize

Type of: dehydration, desiccation, drying up, evaporation, freeze, freezing

Encyclopedia: Lyophilization

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