plastination

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Noun plastination has 1 sense

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"
--₁ is a kind of preservation
--₁ has parts:
fixation, fixing; dehydration, desiccation, drying up, evaporation; hardening, solidifying, solidification, set, curing; impregnation, saturation

Derived form: verb plastinate₁

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