Definition of plastination Plastination
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What does plastination mean?
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NounPlural: plastinations |
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| plastination - 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; "the plastination of specimens is valuable for research and teaching" | ||
| preservation the activity of protecting something from loss or danger | ||
| fixation, fixing (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body | ||
| drying up, desiccation, evaporation, dehydration the process of extracting moisture | ||
| curing, solidification, solidifying, hardening, set the act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact) | ||
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