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CRYONICS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cryonics mean?
• CRYONICS (noun)
The noun CRYONICS has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: CRYONICS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Context example:
cryonics is more science fiction than serious science
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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