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- noun anatomy A
technique forpreserving bodies or body parts by replacing thewater andfat with certainplastics .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues; water and lipids are replaced by curable polymers (silicone or epoxy or polyester) that are subsequently hardened
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Examples
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A giant squid, one of only three in the world to undergo a preserving process called plastination, went on display at AUT University on Thursday and will give students and researchers a unique look at the animal.
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The bodies and body parts on display are preserved using a technique called plastination which reveals anatomical structures
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The bodies and body parts on display are preserved using a technique called plastination which reveals anatomical structures
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Maverick German anatomist Gunther von Hagens is the inventor of "plastination," a process by which the body and fat in a corpse is replaced with a polymer.
Boing Boing: November 28, 2004 - December 4, 2004 Archives 2004
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Dalian Medical University told ABC News that it severed its ties to the plastination lab several years ago.
NYC 'Bodies' Exhibit Must Refund Tickets For Using Undocumented Corpses - The Consumerist 2008
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Von Hagens has presented much documentation that his plastination shops in Dalian, China, and Kyrgyzstan are run according to local law, and that the remains were all donated with informed consent.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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Relying on an embalming technique called “plastination,” which preserves human organs by the infusion of various silicons and epoxies, Body Worlds has been seen by more than thirty million people, many of them paying as much as forty dollars per admission.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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U.S. Customs has said that since the plastination process changes the nature of the human remains, plastinated body parts can be imported as plastic objects, not as human bodies.
NYC 'Bodies' Exhibit Must Refund Tickets For Using Undocumented Corpses - The Consumerist 2008
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Partnered with the Dalian Medical University and the plastination lab operated there by Dr. Sui Hongjin (a former partner of von Hagens '), the company does not own the bodies used in the show, but instead has them on loan from the school.
Sound Politics: Something Smells About The Chinese Corpses On Display In Seattle 2007
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Dismayingly, the same lab is operated by a former partner of plastination pioneer and anatomist Gunther von Hagens of "Body Worlds" fame. von Hagens, the son a former Nazi SS officer, himself has served as a visiting professor at Dalian Medical University, and for some of his international plastination exhibits received from China the corpses of apparently-executed prisoners.
Sound Politics: Something Smells About The Chinese Corpses On Display In Seattle 2007
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Plastination is a process that halts a body’s decay by removing the skin and replacing the fluids with liquid polymer.
‘None of this happened the way you think it did’ Elena Saavedra Buckley 2023
roguetext commented on the word plastination
As in the exhibition of Real Human Bodies via Body Worlds bodyworlds.com
Visited the exhibit in SLC today - and quite amazing -
December 28, 2008