chelation
/kiˈleɪʃən/
noun
- A medical treatment that uses special chemicals to remove heavy metals from the body.
- After several rounds of chelation, the levels of mercury in his body dropped significantly.
- Chelation is sometimes used to treat people who have too much iron in their blood.
- The doctor recommended chelation therapy for the patient with lead poisoning.
- A chemical process in which a molecule binds tightly to a metal ion, forming a stable ring-like structure.
- Chemists study chelation to understand how certain drugs interact with metals in the body.
- The chelation of calcium ions is important in many biological processes.
- In chelation, the metal ion is held in a claw-like grip by the surrounding molecules.