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cryostasis

[ krahy-oh-stey-sis, ‑-stas-is ]

noun

  1. the deep-freezing of human bodies or other organisms at death; cryonics.
  2. the state of being in such a deep-freeze:

    a man held in cryostasis for 50 years.



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