0 the act of getting rid of people from an organization because you do not agree with them :
1 the act of getting rid of something unwanted, harmful, or evil:
2 the act of getting rid of food from your body, for example in order to stop yourself gaining weight, either by making yourself vomit or by using laxatives (= substances that make it easier for waste from the body to come out):
The endoscopes may then be dried by either purging with dry air or flushing with 70% alcohol.
In fact, one study has provided results that suggest purging may be deleterious.
When mutations are semi-lethal the detection of purging is therefore limited by the model's ability to detect ancestral inbreeding effects.
The extent of purging of non-lethal mutations of large effects cannot, however, be detected in this way.
High inbreeding depression, selective interference among loci and the threshold selfing rate for purging recessive lethal mutations.
No new mutations were assumed to occur during the short period of attempted purging.
In some empirical studies, comparisons of fitness between crossbreds and the outbred ancestral population have been used to test for purging.
Purging episodes score=primary purging behaviour (episodes of vomiting, or laxative, diuretic or enema/suppository misuse).
