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cryonics

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cry·on·ics  (kr-nks)
n. (used with a sing. verb)
The process of freezing and storing the body of a diseased, recently deceased person to prevent tissue decomposition so that at some future time the person might be brought back to life upon development of new medical cures.
[cry(o)- + -onics, as in bionics.]
cry·onic adj.
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Noun1.cryonics - 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"
cryobiology - the branch of biology that studies the effects of low temperatures on living tissues or organs or organisms


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Cryonics is based on the idea that sometime in the future, medical science will have advanced to allow the dead person to be revived.
Family Business by Erdel, Dan / Farm Journal
The process is called cryonics Derived from the Greek word for "cold," cryonics has drawn widespread interest since 1967, when a 73-year-old psychology professor who died of cancer became the first human ever put into deep freeze.
Life on ice: extreme cold is both a killer and lifesaver. Learn how ... by Stroh, Michael / Science World
One problem facing cryonics enthusiasts is that no animal larger than a microscopic human embryo or a tiny tardigrade--an insect that measures only a couple hundred microns across--has yet been frozen and successfully revived.
Forever young: the new scientific search for immortality by Bailey, Ronald / Reason
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