pretreatment
Americannoun
plural
pretreatmentsExample Sentences
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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
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