cryonics

American  

[krahy-on-iks] / kraɪˈɒn ɪks /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. the deep-freezing of human bodies at death for preservation and possible revival in the future; cryostasis.

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cryonics British  

/ kraɪˈɒnɪks /

noun

1. (functioning as singular) the practice of freezing a human corpse in the hope of restoring it to life in the future

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Other Word Forms

• cryonic adjective

Etymology

Origin of cryonics

1965–70, cryo- + -nics, on the model of bionics, electronics, etc.

Example Sentences

With advancements in cryonics and emerging technologies such as OrganEx, this is no longer just a science fiction hypothetical but a reality conceivable within our century.

From Washington Post

She chronicles the gallows humor of gravediggers who buried their own mothers and the tempered optimism of cryonics operators tasked with keeping clients’ bodies frozen until science can bring them back to life.

From New York Times

"Epstein was also obsessed with cryonics, the transhumanist philosophy whose followers believe that people can be replicated or brought back to life after they are frozen," Brown writes.

From Salon

Alcor, the most expensive and best-known cryonics company in the United States, said the pandemic forced it to cancel public tours of its Scottsdale operation.

From New York Times

The head of the Russian Academy of Sciences’s Pseudoscience Commission, Evgeny Alexandrov, described cryonics as “an exclusively commercial undertaking that does not have any scientific basis”, in comments to the Izvestia newspaper.

From Reuters