maceration

See also: macération

English

Etymology

Latin mācerātiō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mæsəˈɹeɪʃən/
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

maceration (countable and uncountable, plural macerations)

  1. The act or process of macerating.
    • 2001, Ralph E. Molnar, H. Trevor Clifford, “An Ankylosaurian Cololite from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia”, in Kenneth Carpenter, editor, The Armored Dinosaurs, page 404:
      […] proposed that the small size of the teeth […] implied that most of the maceration of the food occurred after swallowing.

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