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pretreatment

American  
[pree-treet-muhnt] / priˈtrit mənt /

noun

  • pretreatments
    plural
  1. a preliminary course of treatment; the application of a process, substance, etc., beforehand.


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Yet a significant amount of taxpayer funding for pretreatment promotion occurs at the state level.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Now, to assess why some tumors didn't respond to the therapy, the researchers examined pretreatment tumor biopsies from this study cohort.

From Science Daily Feb. 23, 2024

The pretreatment seemed to desensitize the animals to the hormone’s effects later on.

From Science Magazine Dec. 13, 2023

Adriana Toro with Broward County Mosquito Control said the county has stepped up spraying for mosquitoes and is doing pretreatment on larvae.

From Seattle Times Jul. 6, 2023

The tests are not satisfactory because pretreatment was not uniform and there is insufficient data on penalties which are omitted.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 by Northern Nut Growers Association

The workshop covers basic seed physiology, seed viability, germination cues and pretreatments, sowing and aftercare.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 29, 2022

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