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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The cryopreservation of a person with medical needs that cannot be met by available medicine until resuscitation and healing by future medicine is possible. uncountable
2. 2
   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 wordnet

Etymology

From cryo- + -n- + -ics.

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