Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cryonics

1 sense of cryonics

Sense 1
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; "cryonics is more science fiction than serious science")
       => cryobiology -- (the branch of biology that studies the effects of low temperatures on living tissues or organs or organisms)