Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun lyophilization

1 sense of lyophilization

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)
       => freeze, freezing -- (the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid)
       => dehydration, desiccation, drying up, evaporation -- (the process of extracting moisture)