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Refrigeration

noun

The process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes. Synonym: infrigidation.

Deliberately lowering the body's temperature for therapeutic purposes.

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... paraesthesia [Med.], anaesthesia; sleep &c 823; hemiplegia^, motor paralysis; vegetable state; coma. anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral; nitrous oxide, laughing gas; exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen; refrigeration. V. be insensible &c adj.; have a thick skin, have a rhinoceros hide. render insensible &c adj.; anaesthetize^, blunt, pall, obtund^, benumb, paralyze; put under the influence of chloroform &c n.; stupefy, ...

— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... attracted to such a degree that it leaves the rheophores and is extinguished. The same facts are observed in an intense form on presenting the north pole of a magnet to the arc. The quantity of ozone seems greater than when the arc is not refrigerated. It is to be noted that notwithstanding the refrigeration of the rheophores the flame of the arc is slightly green, proving that a portion of the copper is burning. It becomes a question whether the arc would be produced on taking as rheophores two tubes of platinum in which is caused to circulate, ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 • Various

Words linked to "Refrigeration" : cooling, therapy, chilling, refrigerate, infrigidation, preservation, temperature reduction