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cryostasis
[ krahy-oh-stey-sis, ‑-stas-is ]
noun
- the deep-freezing of human bodies or other organisms at death; cryonics.
- the state of being in such a deep-freeze:
a man held in cryostasis for 50 years.
Word History and Origins
Origin of cryostasis1
Example Sentences
There are also two other eggs from Sullivan in cryostasis for when Rose is ready to have more kids, the two women said.
“Projections 433 days ago were that species death had already occurred, but a small but finite probability existed that some cryostasis chambers had remained intact. I monitored.”
“No. But I can project based on the likelihood of survival of any other cryostasis units.”
With transportation in ruins, it took the last robot 432 days to reach the place where the energy spike had originated and locate the unsealed cryostasis tubes.
Technically, the characters are all android replicas of their human counterparts who are lying in cryostasis in the “lifecore” of a crashed ship.
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