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animation
[an″ĭ-ma´shun]the quality of being full of life.
suspended animation temporary suspension or cessation of the vital functions, with loss of consciousness.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.
sus·pend·ed an·i·ma·tion
a temporary state resembling death, with cessation of respiration; may also refer to certain forms of hibernation in animals or to endospore formation by some bacteria.
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
suspended animation
(sə-spĕn′dĭd)n.
A temporary state of interrupted breathing and loss of consciousness resembling death, caused especially by asphyxia.
The American Heritage® Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2007, 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
sus·pend·ed an·i·ma·tion
(sŭs-pend'ĕd an'i-mā'shŭn)A temporary state resembling death, with cessation of respiration; may also refer to certain forms of hibernation in animals or to endospore formation by some bacteria.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
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Suspended animation and artificial gravity are science fiction (and, potentially, science fact) solutions to the problem of how to sustain human life on an intergalactic voyage.
Suspended animation, images suspended in action "in a threshold zone 'betwixt heaven and earth,'" between life and death, caught in the midst of pain and suffering, reinforces the drama of the images in pain, and focuses their cultural messages (25).
There, WRHS student Jim Valcourt, a junior from Sterling, won second place in molecular and cellular biology for his project:Suspended Animation, Elucidating the Anoxia Response Pathway."
Other US researchers are working on methods to place organisms insuspended animation by exposing them to gases including hydrogen sulphide.
"The company is going to be insuspended animation until he's gone," Disney tells Variety.
The Bassac Theatre remains in a state ofsuspended animation, while officials at the Ministry of Culture fight over the money needed to restore it.
Physical, mental, and emotional changes are occurring all at once causing a sort ofsuspended animation or entrapment between childhood and adulthood.
An escalating game of tit-for-tat left one of two partners insuspended animation, holding the object of contention--a fragile egg--in his hand.
In the laboratory, sperm and egg can be mixed together to form a fertilized egg that will then divide in a dish to produce an early embryo in vitro, which may then be implanted into a woman's uterus to develop into a person, or frozen into a state ofsuspended animation, or dissociated into separate embryonic stern cells for further study, or discarded.
In the laboratory, they have successfully produced a state ofsuspended animation for delayed resuscitation by rapidly flushing cold saline (salt water) into the aorta (the main artery) of lab animals.
It is claimed by certain Indian yogis thatsuspended animation is indeed possible, that the heart may be stopped and maintain silence underground for a period of hours or days.
Cryptobiosis is a state ofsuspended animation, or latent state, that is a celebrated feature of tardigrade biology.
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