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cryonics

[ US /ˌkɹaɪˈɔnɪks/ ]
[ UK /kɹa‍ɪˈɒnɪks/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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

How To Use cryonics In A Sentence

  • Mr. Ettinger's ideas, which he popularized in a 1963 book, "The Prospect of Immortality," spawned what some refer to as the cryonics movement, though by most accounts it is a small endeavor: a scattering of enterprises around the country with dues-paying customers totaling a few thousand, a few hundred of whom have actually been deep-frozen. NYT > Home Page
  • I still believe that's true, but it seems the day might come when cryonics is medically prudent.
  • Vitrification, nanotechnology and cryonics may soon make a second lease of life possible. Times, Sunday Times
  • I am reminded of cryonics companies, which you pay to keep your body frozen in a tank of liquid nitrogen forever.
  • The story, accusations that people who had their bodies frozen at extremely low temperatures -- a practice called cryonics -- may have been abused by a company that stored their remains. CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2009
  • Corvi-Mora, SE11, Fri to 31 JulSSMurray Ballard's The Prospect Of Immortality is the outcome of five years of photographic investigation into the cryonics industry, the technique of deep-freezing a human corpse in the belief or hope that future scientific advances might enable it to be brought back to life. This week's new exhibitions
  • Cryonicists divide the world into two groups, those who are experimenting with cryonics by being frozen vs. those who just die and are buried.
  • The process, known as cryonics, is conducted with the hope that someday scientists will be able to bring the subjects back to life. Undefined
  • I'm lining up a cryonics team that will be there as soon as I'm declared dead.
  • In 1976, after retiring from teaching, he founded the Cryonics Institute, adopting the word "cryonics" from cryogenics, a field of physics that studies how materials behave at very low temperatures. NYT > Home Page
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