preacclimation
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- pre-acclimation
Etymology
[edit]pre- + acclimation
Adjective
[edit]preacclimation (not comparable)
- Prior to becoming acclimated
- a preacclimation response to sunlight.
Noun
[edit]preacclimation
- (biology) Acclimation in advance of a particular stimulus or treatment
- 1999, Fatih Büyüksönmez et al., “Optimization of Simultaneous Chemical and Biological Mineralization of Perchloroethylene”, in Applied and Environmental Microbiology[1], volume 65, number 6:
- We previously showed that the toxic effects of Fenton's reagent were sufficiently reduced by preacclimation of microorganisms to high concentrations of hydrogen peroxide.