cryonics
noun
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- adjective
- adverb
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Sense 1 noun
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
cryonics is more science fiction than serious science
Types & categories
- cryobiology hypernym
Related & opposite
- cryonic derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | cryonic |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | cryobiology |