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CRYONICS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The freezing of a seriously ill or recently deceased person to stop tissues from decomposing; the body is preserved until new medical cures are developed that might bring the person back to life
Example:
cryonics is more science fiction than serious science
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("cryonics" is a kind of...):
cryobiology (the branch of biology that studies the effects of low temperatures on living tissues or organs or organisms)
Derivation:
cryonic (of or relating to cryonics)
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