cryogenically
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- adverb
- /ˌkraɪəˈdʒɛnɪkli/
- Specialized
- The scientist stored the samples cryogenically to preserve their integrity for future research.
- cryogenically preserved
- cryogenically cooled
Examples
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He's gotta be cryogenically frozen until they find a cure!
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You have been cryogenically frozen for 30 years.
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The bodies in that lab that were cryogenically frozen.
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FT: The truth is, unless they are cryogenically preserved, they have no chance.
Blog text (25) -
All the eggs are cryogenically frozen in the hopes that they one day will have enough resources to hatch them all.
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If your brain cells rot away, there is no hope of reanimation, but if they are cryogenically preserved, there is.
Blog text (25) -
Dr. Dupompe, can't you just take it out and put it in a lovely little container and cryogenically freeze it for later?
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As if it were yesterday, he could feel the chilled casket sliding out of the rack as a faint puff of condensation rose from the cryogenically preserved body.
Fiction book (1992) -
In AZ, Versus BZBZ wishes to enforce the consent forms against her ex-husband, AZ in order to get control of the cryogenically frozen vials.
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If you want to be revived in the future, you can choose to be cryogenically frozen after death.
Surface Forms
Morphology
cryogenically = cryogenic (semi-transparent) = cryo + gen + ic + ly
The adverb is regularly formed from the technical adjective 'cryogenic', but the scientific combining forms in the base make it only partly transparent to many learners.
Etymology
Cryogenically comes from cryo- meaning 'cold' and -genic meaning 'making' or 'origin', a pair you also see in cryotherapy, which uses cold to treat the body. So to do something cryogenically is to use very low temperatures to freeze or keep things safe for the future.