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dessicate

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v. t.1.variant spelling of desiccate.


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If, for example, all I know about a pressure ulcer is the stage, and I base my treatment decision to use an alginate on that information alone, I could possibly dessicate the wound bed by dehydrating it if there is no drainage.
Pressure ulcers: coping with the "reverse staging" dilemma by Bruck, Laura / Nursing Homes
Demography is far too important a part of social experience to be left to demographers who are too often content to dessicate social experience and "explain" its variation.
Microhistories: Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, ... by Levine, David / Journal of Social History
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