Noun lyophilization has 1 sense
  1. freeze-drying, lyophilization, lyophilisation - 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
    --1 is a kind of freeze, freezing; dehydration, desiccation, drying up, evaporation
    Derived form: verb lyophilize1
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