What does the term dessication mean?

What does the term dessication mean?

• A. Removing moisture
• B. Adding moisture
• C. Cooling tissue
• D. Heating tissue

Answer: (A)

Dessication is the process of drying something out by removing moisture from it. It focuses on water content being reduced, not on changing temperature or adding anything. So removing moisture describes what dessication truly means. The other ideas—adding moisture would hydrate, cooling lowers temperature, and heating raises temperature—do not describe the loss of water that defines this term.

Dessication is the process of drying something out by removing moisture from it. It focuses on water content being reduced, not on changing temperature or adding anything. So removing moisture describes what dessication truly means. The other ideas—adding moisture would hydrate, cooling lowers temperature, and heating raises temperature—do not describe the loss of water that defines this term.