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CRYOBIOLOGY

Dictionary entry overview: What does cryobiology mean?

• CRYOBIOLOGY (noun)
The noun CRYOBIOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of biology that studies the effects of low temperatures on living tissues or organs or organisms

Familiarity information: CRYOBIOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CRYOBIOLOGY (noun)

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Meaning:

The branch of biology that studies the effects of low temperatures on living tissues or organs or organisms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("cryobiology" is a kind of...):

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cryobiology"):

cryonics (the freezing of a seriously ill or recently deceased person to stop tissues from decomposing; the body is preserved until new medical cures are developed that might bring the person back to life)

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