phenolizationn.
/ˌfiːnəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌfɛnəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈˌfinəˌlaɪˈzeɪʃən/, /ˈˌfinələˈzeɪʃən/, /ˈˌfɛnəˌlaɪˈzeɪʃən/, /ˈˌfɛnələˈzeɪʃən/ Chiefly Medicine.
Treatment with a phenol, esp. for the purposes of disinfection or sterilization.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > [noun] > cleansing of wounds, ulcers, etc.
mundification?a1425
phenolization1907
1907 Lancet 2 Nov. 1280/1 Of 63 cases treated by phenolisation or phenopuncture..51 have been cured.
1968 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 59 154 RNA was purified by phenolization and ethanol precipitation.
1991 Lancet 9 Feb. 356/2 Recurrence was seen in only 9% (of 67) of toenails treated by nail-edge excision and germinal-matrix phenolisation but in 73% (of 137) of those receiving other standard treatments.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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