cryopreservation

American  

[krahy-oh-prez-er-vey-shuhn] / ˌkraɪ oʊˌprɛz ərˈveɪ ʃən /

noun

1. the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.

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Etymology

Origin of cryopreservation

1972; cryo- + preservation

Example Sentences

There is a sense of anticipation as a member of the research team opens a large a metal cryopreservation tank where Oliver's gene edited stem cells are frozen, having been transported back from GOSH.

From BBC

Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly revealed that although Mr Junmin lived alone for two years after the procedure, in 2020 he began dating again, despite his wife remaining in cryopreservation.

From BBC

No one has ever been successfully revived following cryopreservation, and scientists believe that preserving and reawakening the complete human body is still a remote possibility.

From BBC

Some years after also working on the wood frog in Ottawa, another Storey lab alumna, Rasha Al-Attar, now works at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Engineering in Medicine & Surgery, where she takes inspiration from nature to develop cryopreservation techniques for experimental model animals like zebrafish, or to preserve organs like human hearts.

From Salon

A recent study in Frontiers in Medical Technology explored several potential strategies for preserving structural information in the brain after death, including traditional cryopreservation.

From Salon