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VACUOLATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vacuolation mean?
• VACUOLATION (noun)
The noun VACUOLATION has 1 sense:
1. the state of having become filled with vacuoles
Familiarity information: VACUOLATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of having become filled with vacuoles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
vacuolation; vacuolisation; vacuolization
Hypernyms ("vacuolation" is a kind of...):
Context examples
Spongy degeneration of central nervous system , spongy degeneration of white matter a rare hereditary form of leukodystrophy of early onset in which widespread demyelination and vacuolation of cerebral white matter gives it a spongy appearance; there is mental retardation, megalocephaly, atony of neck muscles, limb spasticity, and blindness, with death in infancy.
(Canavan Disease, NICHD)
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