sterilization
Noun
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is a type of: operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living bodysubtypes:
- altering, fixing, neutering - the sterilization of an animal
- surgical contraception - contraception by surgical sterilization
same as: sterilisation -
subtypes: pasteurisation, pasteurization - partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major changes in the chemistry of the foodsame as: sterilisation
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