CURING: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
 Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Cur"ing\ (k?r"?ng),
p. a. & vb. n. of {Cure}.
{Curing house}, a building in which anything is cured;
especially, in the West Indies, a building in which sugar
is drained and dried.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | - Removing all traces of a disease from the body so that the body is perfectly healthy again.
- A process of improving the flavor, color, tenderness, and shelf life of a meat, such as by using smoke, spices, and chemicals.
- Making a finished product out of a raw material by using heat or chemicals, such as tanned leather or vulcanized rubber.
- Causing the loss of a plasmid from a bacterial culture or the loss of a dormant virus which has inserted itself into the bacterial genome (a lysogenized virus).
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| Thesaurus Terms |
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| | Related Terms: | | anhydration, blast-freezing, bottling, brining, canning, corning, cure, dehydration, desiccation, dry-curing, drying, embalming, evaporation, freeze-drying, freezing, fuming, healing, irradiation, jerking, marination, mummification, pickling, potting, quick-freezing, refrigeration, remedial, remedy, restorative, salting, sanative, sanatory, seasoning, smoking, stuffing, taxidermy, therapy, tinning, vulnerary, wholesome |
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