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maceration

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See also: macération

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Latin mācerātiō.

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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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