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cryonics, n. pl. (const. as sing.)|kraɪˈɒnɪks|
[f. cryo- + -onics (after bionics n. pl., etc.).]
The practice or technique of deep-freezing the bodies of people who have died, usu. of an incurable disease, with the aim of reviving them once a cure has been found.
1965Christian Century 27 Oct. 1313/2 At this writing there exist at least three nonprofit organizations formed to promote cryogenic internment:..Cryonic [sic.] Society of New York. 1967N.Y. Times 20 Jan. 44/2 The experiment is being conducted by the Cryonics Society of California. Ibid. 29 Jan. i. 58/1 Most cryonics enthusiasts..concede that present methods of freezing a body offer no guarantee that the harm done by the freezing process can be repaired. 1977C. D. Simak Heritage of Stars 183 You read what was written about going to the stars centuries before there was any possibility of going to the stars... You read about cryonics: freezing the passengers and then reviving them. 1990Sunday Tel. 3 June 16/2 It also promises to put under the legal microscope the burgeoning cryonics industry—the controversial experimental procedure in which all or part of a person's body is frozen and preserved in the expectation of bringing it back to life sometime in the future.
Hence cryˈonic a., of, pertaining to, or involving cryonics; cryˈonically adv.; cryˈonicist n., one who advocates or practises cryonics.
1968Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 3 Aug. 4/2 Steven Jay Mendell..who died last Sunday will have a so-called cryonic interment. 1968Newsweek 12 Aug. 29/3 Cryonicists hope that..someday whole bodies may be brought back to life. 1976M. Apple Oranging of Amer. (1986) 18 The man who..already kept one freezer in his car merely ordered another, this one designed according to cryonic specifications. 1982Time 26 July 45/1 Parton plays Mona as if Mae West had been cryonically preserved but someone didn't quite finish the job of unfreezing her. 1988L.A. Times 17 Jan. i. 3/1 The cryonicists, who say that the coroner's tests would harm the head beyond hope of resurrection, will not say where it is. 1990Daily Tel. 3 May 12/8 In his lawsuit..he is asking that the state should be barred from stopping him from undergoing cyronic suspension before he is declared legally dead. |