English noun: plastination |
1. | plastination (process) 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 |
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| Samples | The plastination of specimens is valuable for research and teaching.
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| Broader (hypernym) | preservation |
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| Part holonym | curing, dehydration, desiccation, drying up, evaporation, fixation, fixing, hardening, impregnation, saturation, set, solidification, solidifying |
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