detoxify

Examples from literature

It also assists in detoxification of the lymphatic system. 
The liver is the most active organ in the body during detoxification. 
You may well be wondering how or why detoxification of the bowels allowed the body to repair the uterus. 

detoxification | American Dictionary

detoxification
noun[ U ]
us/diˌtɑk·sə·fɪˈkeɪ·ʃən/
the process of removing harmful or toxic chemicals
medical(short formdetox, us/ˈdiˌtɑks/)
the process of giving medical treatment to someone in order to remove the effects of poisoning from drugs or alcohol:
a detoxification program/center

Examples of detoxification

detoxification
Indeed, patients were often reluctant to be prescribed a detoxification drug which had not led to them successfully achieving abstinence in the past.
Practices with less than two detoxifications in six months had to be excluded for reasons of feasibility.
The fixation is independent of the physical tolerance to the drug and remains even after the detoxification of the patient's body.
Otherwise, short inpatient detoxification regimes are recommended, but, with facilities being increasingly constrained, a common option is a longer-term outpatient withdrawal regime.
The vinyl phosphate anthelmintic dichlorvos (2,2-dichlorovinyl dimethyl phosphate) is one of the most widely used, due to its biocidal activity, volatility and rapid detoxification.
The 14 fragments correspond to genes involved in signalling, stress response, gene expression regulation, detoxification and metabolism, and those with unknown function (table 1).
The re-installment of this detoxification capacity through re-allocation of the energy budget may require more than three generations.
Those with active substance dependence who require detoxification are not eligible for reasons of medical safety.
This edition includes some of the new and less widely used interventions such as buprenorphine and accelerated detoxification.
It covers pharmacologic treatment for alcohol and drug dependence and alcohol detoxification.
Perhaps some of the bile within these pages might be the evidence of a first step in detoxification.
An alternate function for glutamine synthesis is ammonia detoxification, a process by which ammonia is cleared by glutamine efflux from the brain.
Many started as a hostel or day centre to meet local needs and developed detoxification centres, special-needs hostels and supported housing schemes.
A dihydrocodeine detoxification regime could therefore be regarded as more difficult to adhere to.
Detoxification follows the same principles whether in the community or, rarely, in an inpatient or residential unit setting.
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