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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
detoxification
noun
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▪ a detoxification program
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▪ By literally washing it out, the detoxification process can start.
▪ Caffeine enemas are given four hourly, as well as castor oil - orally or by enema - to aid detoxification.
▪ Earlier on, he had won the Lasker Award for his work on the metabolic detoxification of tranquilizers.
▪ For this reason, such changes are known as biotransformation rather than detoxification.
▪ Getting started on a rehabilitation regime sometimes requires help with detoxification, a process to remove excess chemicals from the body.
▪ In the following quote, a young married woman with two children describes the urge to use following detoxification.
▪ She also called for more investment in drug detoxification projects.
▪ The two charities have worked successfully together, advancing occupational therapy in the drug detoxification centres.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
detoxification

detoxification \detoxification\ n.

  1. a medically supervised treatment for addiction to drugs or alcohol intended to rid the body of the addictive substances.

  2. treatment for poisoning by counteracting its toxic properties.

  3. conversion (of a poisonous substance) to a non-toxic or harmless state.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
detoxification

1905, of substances, 1971 of persons who drink to excess; see detoxify + -ation.

Wiktionary
detoxification

n. The process of remove toxins.

WordNet
detoxification
  1. n. a treatment for addiction to drugs or alcohol intended to remove the physiological effects of the addictive substances

  2. treatment for poisoning by neutralizing the toxic properties (normally a function of the liver)

Wikipedia
Detoxification

Detoxification or detoxication (detox for short) is the physiological or medicinal removal of toxic substances from a living organism, including the human body, which is mainly carried out by the liver. Additionally, it can refer to the period of withdrawal during which an organism returns to homeostasis after long-term use of an addictive substance. In medicine, detoxification can be achieved by decontamination of poison ingestion and the use of antidotes as well as techniques such as dialysis and (in a limited number of cases) chelation therapy.

Many alternative medicine practitioners promote various types of detoxification such as detoxification diets. Scientists have described these as a "waste of time and money". Sense About Science, a UK-based charitable trust, determined that most such dietary "detox" claims lack any supporting evidence.

Detoxification (alternative medicine)

Detoxification (also sometimes called body cleansing) in the context of alternative medicine consists of an approach that aims to rid the body of "toxins" – accumulated harmful substances that allegedly exert undesirable effects on individual health in the short or long term. Detoxification usually includes one or more of the following: dieting, fasting, consuming exclusively or avoiding specific foods (such as fats, carbohydrates, fruits, vegetables, juices, herbs, or water), colon cleansing, chelation therapy, or the removal of dental fillings.

The British organisation Sense About Science has described some detox diets and commercial products as "a waste of time and money"; many researchers agree that there is no clinical evidence that such diets are effective. The "toxins" usually remain undefined, with little to no evidence of toxic accumulation in the patient.

Detoxification (disambiguation)

Detoxification is the physiological or medicinal removal of toxic substances from a living organism, including the human body.

Detoxification, detoxication or detox may also refer to:

Usage examples of "detoxification".

Based on a real Chicagoan, Win-throp is a black ex-junkie and reformed Mob murderer who now runs a detoxification centre on the South Side.

When his hurts had healed enough to allow it, he climbed back up the rope and begun a kind of detoxification process for them, determining the level of influence Charon had committed on each, then correcting things.

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Occasionally, and more and more often, he sold him gossip about literary divorces, infidelities, bankruptcies, detoxifications, diseases.

The odds were good to excellent that the chemical compound Gunn had discovered as the cause of the exploding red tide was filtering out of the solar detoxification plant.