Definition of anabiosis in English:
anabiosis
nounˌanəbʌɪˈəʊsɪsˌanəbīˈōsəs
mass nounZoology A temporary state of suspended animation or greatly reduced metabolism.
Example sentencesExamples
- He said three types of life forms are found in permafrost: active ones that eke out a living, forms in suspended anabiosis until things get better, and the ones that simply gave up and died.
- His photographs show that during anabiosis membranes contract in intricate folds within the shrunken cell.
- Although the dry acid sand environment of S. longitunae is periodically moistened by natural rainfall, the animal appears to resist revival from anabiosis even after up to five days of rainfall.
- CAM also occurs in some resurrection plants that are desiccation-tolerant and can shift between biosis and anabiosis as they dry out and are rewatered, respectively.
- Drawing from the results of the experiments, the researchers came up with a theory of anabiosis for large living organisms.
Derivatives
adjectiveˌanəbʌɪˈɒtɪk
Zoology And then the wonder happened: a few days after the exsiccator was filled with plain tap water, the seemingly dead (anabiotic) eggs awakened to life!
Example sentencesExamples
- When anabiotic, tardigrades look like they are dead - they don't move, don't breathe and their metabolism is undetectable.
- ‘Recent research [shows] that extremely severe conditions of cosmic environments do not exclude the possibility that microorganisms may exist in anabiotic states at high altitudes in interplanetary space,’ he wrote in a recent paper.
- Evidence suggests that glacial ice cannot support bacterial growth but rather traps these organisms for considerable lengths of time in an anabiotic state.
- We put hearts, blood and semen of the lab animals into an anabiotic capsule designed and built by our team.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Greek anabiōsis, from anabioein 'return to life'.