This form of cerebellar degeneration may precede cancer. Alcoholic or nutritional cerebellar degeneration affects alcoholics and people with thiamine deficiency. It is not related to cancer and is more common than the paraneoplastic type.
Liquefaction is the process of loose soil acting like a liquid during an earthquake. Most of the time, buildings and homes are built upon solid bedrock.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Torrefaction, also referred to as Torrefecation, of biomass, e.g. wood, can be described as a mild form of pyrolysis at temperatures typically ranging between 200 and 320 Â°C. During torrefaction, the biomass properties are changed to obtain a much better fuel quality for combustion and gasification applications.