Arefaction

An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences · 1907 · p. 4

(ar-e-fak'-shun). I. Exsiccation or desiccation. The removal of the structural or constitutional water from a substance. 2. The drying of drugs before powdering them. 3. Dryne , as of the skin. 4. Withering, as of a paralyzed limb.