plastination, n.
(plastinations)
(plastinations)
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
<noun.process>
plastination
sample sentences
"the plastination of specimens is valuable for research and teaching"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
part meronym
fixation, fixing
dehydration, desiccation, drying up, evaporation
hardening, solidifying, solidification, set, curing
saturation, impregnation
hypernym