plastination
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1. 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 (noun.process)
| hypernym | : | preservation, |
| definition | : | a process that saves organic substances from decay (noun.process) |
| part holonym | : | fixation, fixing, |
| definition | : | (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body (noun.act) |
| part holonym | : | impregnation, saturation, |
| definition | : | the process of totally saturating something with a substance (noun.process) |
| derivation | : | plastinate, |
| definition | : | preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes (verb.possession) |
| derivation | : | plastinate, |
| definition | : | preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes (verb.possession) |
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