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    quenching

    quenching is a topic covered in the Taber's Medical Dictionary.

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    1. Cooling a hot object.
    2. Decreasing the energy released from a radioactive or fluorescent object.
    3. The ability of any material to decrease the toxicity of a poison.
    4. In MRI, the emergency release of cooling cryogens that maintain the necessary super-cooling condition of the primary magnet in order to turn off the magnetic field; used as a safety measure.

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    Citation

    Venes, Donald, editor. "Quenching." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 23rd ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2017. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/729153/all/quenching.
    Quenching. In: Venes D, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. 23rd ed. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/729153/all/quenching. Accessed April 22, 2019.
    Quenching. (2017). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary. Available from https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/729153/all/quenching
    Quenching [Internet]. In: Venes D, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. [cited 2019 April 22]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/729153/all/quenching.
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