cryopreservation
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- noun
- /ˌkraɪoʊprɛzərˈveɪʃən/
- Specialized
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criopreservación
- The process of cryopreservation allows scientists to store living cells at very low temperatures to prevent decay.
- cryopreservation of embryos
Upon a client's death, specialized teams initiate the cryopreservation process promptly to prevent cellular decomposition.
- Upon a client's death, specialized teams initiate the cryopreservation process promptly to prevent cellular decomposition.
Examples
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Ultra-low-temperature storage—cryopreservation—of swine embryos was developed, enabling unprecedented global transport of embryos.
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As advances in cryopreservation make it more common, the impermanence of female fertility is best confronted at younger ages.
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It's because what they have in mind is the cryopreservation of specimens of plants and animals.
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For women, cryopreservation is not a process that can be undertaken lightly.
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Cryopreservation of swine embryos was developed in the 1990s.
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Upon a client's death, specialized teams initiate the cryopreservation process promptly to prevent cellular decomposition.
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Grapes pose a cryopreservation challenge because typical cryopreservation tactics that work beautifully for other crops don't work for this one.
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For example, the North American Cheetah Survival Plan has financially supported educational outreach and research in Namibia, including sperm collection and cryopreservation.
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Here, cryopreservation specialist Susan Sheffer removes grape buds from storage for regeneration.
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In patients who are of reproductive age, cryopreservation (cooling of tissues or cells to very low temperatures to maintain viability) of their sperm may be recommended.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
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Cooling or freezing food to keep it fresh
To cool or freeze food to keep it fresh
How Cold
Surface Forms
Morphology
cryopreservation = preservation (transparent) = cryo + preservation
The meaning follows directly from the combining form 'cryo-' (cold/freezing) applied to 'preservation', indicating preservation by very low temperatures.
Etymology
The word cryopreservation combines cryo- and preserve, where cryo- means 'cold' or 'frost' and preserve means 'to keep'. So cryopreservation is like putting cells in a very cold 'freezer' to keep them from decaying for a long time.