cryonics

Plural: cryonics

Noun

• The practice of freezing dead bodies for future revival.
• The practice of preserving dead bodies by freezing for future revival.
• the freezing of a seriously ill or recently deceased person to stop tissues from decomposing; the body is preserved until new medical cures are developed that might bring the person back to life
  • "cryonics is more science fiction than serious science"
• The cryopreservation of a person with medical needs that cannot be met by available medicine until resuscitation and healing by future medicine is possible.

Examples

• Her Scrabble score remained in cryonics until she finally drew some power tiles.
• His hope for a comeback was as frozen as a subject in CRYONICS after that devastating bingo.

Related Words

cryogenics, CRYONIC