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detoxification

[dee-tok-suh-fi-key-shuhn] / diˌtɒk sə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən /


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That could have included residential rehabilitation, community-based treatment, detoxification, substitute prescriptions or any other treatment recommended by a health professional.

From BBC Oct. 9, 2025

The broad strokes of natural detoxification are easy to grasp, but the particulars not so much.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2025

Nobody knows how people first cracked the problem, but ancient Amazonians devised a complex, multistep process of detoxification that transforms cassava from inedible to delicious.

From Salon May 6, 2024

Patients affected by the disease are found to also experience an imbalance of glutathione regulation, which is important for liver detoxification.

From Science Daily Jan. 10, 2024

The detoxification is accomplished by one of the enzymes of the liver.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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