Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
decontamination
de·con·tam·i·na·tion [ dee-kuhn-tam-uh-ney-shun ]
Subclass of:
Public Health Practice
Definitions related to decontamination:
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(decontaminating) The act of ridding of contamination.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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The removal of contaminating material, such as radioactive materials, biological materials, or CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS, from a person or object.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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