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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cryostasis¹

cryo- + stasis

Example Sentences

There are also two other eggs from Sullivan in cryostasis for when Rose is ready to have more kids, the two women said.

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“Projections 433 days ago were that species death had already occurred, but a small but finite probability existed that some cryostasis chambers had remained intact. I monitored.”

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“No. But I can project based on the likelihood of survival of any other cryostasis units.”

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With transportation in ruins, it took the last robot 432 days to reach the place where the energy spike had originated and locate the unsealed cryostasis tubes.

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Technically, the characters are all android replicas of their human counterparts who are lying in cryostasis in the “lifecore” of a crashed ship.

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