Cryonics | Definition of Cryonics by Merriam-Webster

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: the practice of freezing a person who has died of a disease in hopes of restoring life at some future time when a cure for the disease has been developed

1966, in the meaning defined above

earlier cryonic (from cry- + -onicin bionic) + -ics)

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Cryonics. The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cryonics. Accessed 28 December 2019.

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medical : a procedure in which a person's body is frozen just after he or she has died so that the body can be restored if a cure for the cause of death is found

: the practice of freezing the body of a person who has died from a disease in hopes of restoring life at some future time when a cure for the disease has been developed

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