maceration
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /mæsəˈɹeɪʃən/
Noun

maceration

  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 The Armored Dinosaurs, edited by Kenneth Carpenter page 404 ↗
      […] proposed that the small size of the teeth […] implied that most of the maceration of the food occurred after swallowing.
Translations
  • French: macération
  • Italian: maceramento
  • Spanish: maceración



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