pretreatment

American  

[pree-treet-muhnt] / priˈtrit mənt /

noun

plural

pretreatments

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

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Example Sentences

After a second fecal transplant, using a different antibiotic pretreatment, the patient remained symptom-free for more than 16 months.

From Science Daily

"Our procedure holds immense potential for monitoring microplastics in samples obtained directly from the environment, with no pretreatment required, while being unaffected by possible contaminants that could interfere with other methods," says Professor Yusuke Yamauchi of Nagoya University.

From Science Daily

When construction started on the vitrification plant 22 years ago, plans called for the largest building, the Pretreatment Facility, to be used to separate tank waste into low activity and high-level waste streams for separate treatment and disposal.

From Seattle Times

But more recently, DOE has been able to separate some the least radioactive waste with a system set up near the tanks that uses filtration and an ion exchange system to remove the high-level waste, bypassing the unfinished Pretreatment Facility.

From Seattle Times

An analysis released in early 2023 on options for preparing high-level waste for treatment rated an option the highest that would not use the massive, partially built Pretreatment Facility if smaller facilities were built.

From Seattle Times