siccation

Latin siccatio.

siccation (uncountable)

1. The act or process of drying.
   • 1655, John Wooddall, The Surgeons Mate:

     Siccation is the drying up of excremental humidity in bodies

• “siccation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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