lyophilisation

Questions about lyophilisation

What does lyophilisation mean?

lyophilisation means "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".

How many syllables are in lyophilisation?

lyophilisation has 6 syllables and divides as ly-o-phi-li-sa-tion under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for lyophilisation?

Close synonyms include freeze-drying, lyophilization. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lyophilisation a common word?

lyophilisation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.