maceration

plural macerations

1. countableuncountableThe act or process of macerating.

   Culled or surplus hatchlings awaiting disposal must be treated as humanely as those intended for retention or sale. They must be destroyed humanely by a recommended method such as carbon dioxide gassing or quick maceration and thoroughly inspected to ensure that all are dead.

   2002, Standing Committee on Agriculture and Resource Management, Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals, 4th edition, Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, section 14, page 21

   1. countableuncountableSoaking and softening (in combination), plus or minus dissolving.
   2. countableuncountableCommunition, dissolving, or any combination thereof.

      […] proposed that the small size of the teeth […] implied that most of the maceration of the food occurred after swallowing.

      2001, Ralph E. Molnar, H. Trevor Clifford, “An Ankylosaurian Cololite from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia”, in Kenneth Carpenter, editor, The Armored Dinosaurs, page 404