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depuration

noun as in refinement

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They are not easily removed by rinsing or depuration, a process in which shellfish are stored in sterilized seawater.

One relates to judicious and vigilant attention to the patient's nutrition; the other relates to such measures for depuration as may be called for in each particular case.

“This is a country that still hasn’t completed depuration systems, where sewers aren’t connected to all homes, and where losses in the water transportation network, while a misleading indicator, demonstrate the increasing degree of degradation.”

“This is a country that still hasn’t completed depuration systems, where sewers aren’t connected to all homes, and where losses in the water transportation network, while a misleading indicator, demonstrate the increasing degree of degradation.”

Toxic elements in the blood affect the kidneys in a greater or less degree, and there produce changes at first unnoticed,—at least, as long as the kidney can perform its function,—but the day arrives when, as described by Fothergill, blood depuration is imperfect, and we get many diseases which are distinctly uræmic in character, and ending in any of the so-called kidney diseases, Bright’s disease being one of the most common.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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