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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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They discovered the two groups of pretreatment tumors could be reliably distinguished by a set of genes with 135 of the genes turned up and 5 turned down.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2024

Beyond the disruption, SpaceX also outlined other major additions to its plans, including the creation of a natural gas pretreatment plant, used to purify methane to be used in the Starship rocket.

From The Verge • Jun. 13, 2022

If we can’t put pretreatment on the road to better enable plowing, is there some other way of dealing with that kind of problem?

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2022

About one-half have had at least a 50% improvement over their pretreatment score on a depression scale.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 22, 2021

The pretreatment week was also the time at which I felt most able to venture out of the house, and would accompany my aunt or my sister-in-law on small shopping sprees during the day.

From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Isaacson, Lauren Ann