anabiosis
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of anabiosis
1885–90; < New Latin < Greek anabíōsis a coming back to life, equivalent to anabiō-, variant stem of anabioûn to return to life ( see ana-, bio-) + -sis -sis
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One of his remarkable pictures clearly shows that protein molecules eventually used by the developing plant are rearranged during anabiosis into physiologically inactive crystals�a structure that scientists had suspected but never observed.
From Time Magazine Archive
His photographs show that during anabiosis membranes contract in intricate folds within the shrunken cell.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now, because of the perseverance of German Botanist Ernst Perner, several theories about anabiosis have finally been confirmed.
From Time Magazine Archive
John Hunter, supported by his experiments on anabiosis, hoped to prolong the life of man indefinitely by alternate freezing and thawing; and the Veronese Colonel Aless.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir
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