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cryo-processing

cryo-processing is the present participle and gerund of cryo-process.

Meaning of cryo-process

Verb

cryo-process (third-person singular simple present cryo-processes, present participle cryo-processing, simple past and past participle cryo-processed)

  1. To subject to cryogenic freezing.
    • . Tissues were cryo-processed because membranous structures in the oocyst appear to hinder routine fixation and embedment.1983 June, Willima E. Hawkins, John W. Fournie, Robin M. Overstreet, “Organization of sporulated oocysts of Eimeria funduli in the gulf killifish, Fundulus grandis”, in The Journal of parasitology...

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Noun

cryo-processing

  1. The act of processing by cryogenic freezing.
    • During Sept/Oct. hearings in Saint John, the National Energy Board also learned of Tenneco's conviction that the special tankers carrying 25 Gg of Algerian LNG could best unload at Tiner Point in Bay of Fundy rather than at Sears Island, Me, Lauzon, Que, and Canso, N.S. Dome Pete's track record...1977, Canadian Chemical Processing - Volume 61, page 62
    • In the course of autoradiographic processing, the number of silver grains scored over the same surface of the predentine was smaller after cryo-processing than after aldehyde fixation .1987, Michel Goldberg, Dominique Septier, Françoise Escaig-Haye, Glycoconjugates in dentinogenesis and dentine, →ISBN, page 32

Questions about cryo-processing

What does cryo-processing mean?
Cryo-processing means the act of processing by cryogenic freezing.
What is cryo-processing the present participle and gerund of?
Cryo-processing is the present participle and gerund of cryo-process.
What part of speech is cryo-processing?
Cryo-processing is a noun.

Words near cryo-processing in the dictionary

  1. cryo-froze
  2. cryo-frozen
  3. cryo-process
  4. cryo-processed
  5. cryo-processes
  6. cryo-processing
  7. cryo-transmission
  8. cryo-transmission electron micrograph
  9. cryo-transmission electron microscope
  10. cryo-transmission electron microscopy
  11. cryoablation

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