| detoxification | Treatment designed to free an addict from his drug habit. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| detoxification reaction | Reactions taking place generally in the liver or kidney in order to inactivate toxins, either by degradation or else by conjugation of residues to a hydrophilic moiety to promote excretion. (18 Nov 1997) |
| sorption detoxification | Elimination of toxic or biologically active substances from body fluids by interaction with a sorbent medium. The types of media include absorbents, adsorbents, ion-exchange materials, and complexing agents. Detoxification can be extracorporeal (haemodialysis, haemofiltration, haemoperfusion, plasmapheresis), or occur inside the body (enterosorption, peritoneal dialysis). (12 Dec 1998) |
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