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PLASTINATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues; water and lipids are replaced by curable polymers (silicone or epoxy or polyester) that are subsequently hardened
Example:
the plastination of specimens is valuable for research and teaching
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("plastination" is a kind of...):
preservation (a process that saves organic substances from decay)
Meronyms (parts of "plastination"):
fixation; fixing ((histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body)
dehydration; desiccation; drying up; evaporation (the process of extracting moisture)
curing; hardening; set; solidification; solidifying (the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization)
impregnation; saturation (the process of totally saturating something with a substance)
Derivation:
plastinate (preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes)
