PLASTINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plastination mean? 

• PLASTINATION (noun)
  The noun PLASTINATION has 1 sense:

1. a process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues; water and lipids are replaced by curable polymers (silicone or epoxy or polyester) that are subsequently hardened

  Familiarity information: PLASTINATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLASTINATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues; water and lipids are replaced by curable polymers (silicone or epoxy or polyester) that are subsequently hardened

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Context example:

the plastination of specimens is valuable for research and teaching

Hypernyms ("plastination" is a kind of...):

preservation (a process that saves organic substances from decay)

Meronyms (parts of "plastination"):

fixation; fixing ((histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body)

dehydration; desiccation; drying up; evaporation (the process of extracting moisture)

curing; hardening; set; solidification; solidifying (the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization)

impregnation; saturation (the process of totally saturating something with a substance)

Derivation:

plastinate (preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes)