suspended animation
Noun
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Noun
suspended animation (uncountable)
- A temporary cessation of breathing and consciousness resembling death; often the result of asphyxia.
- (science fiction) The deliberate slowing of the body's functions, sometimes by the use of cryonics, on long interstellar journeys.
- cryogenic suspension
- coldsleep
- German: Scheintod
- French: biostase, animation suspendue
- Russian: анабио́з
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