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Date "CRYOPRESERVATION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Preservation of cells, tissues, organs, or embryos by freezing. In histological preparations, cryopreservation or cryofixation is used to maintain the existing form, structure, and chemical composition of all the constituent elements of the specimens. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Two phenomena which cause damage to cells during cryopreservation are solution effects and intracellular ice formation. Solution effects are caused by concentration of solutes in non-frozen solution during freezing as solutes are excluded from the crystal structure of the ice. The mechanism of cell damage due to intracellular ice formation is not well understood.
One of the most important early workers on the theory of cryopreservation was James Lovelock of Gaia theory fame. Dr. Lovelock's work suggested that damage to red blood cells during freezing was due to osmotic stresses.
Water bears (or tardigrada), microscopic multicellular organisms, can survive freezing at low temperatures by replacing most of their internal water with the sugar trehalose.
Usually, this technique is used for biological materials. Common examples include:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cryopreservation."
Crosswords: CRYOPRESERVATION |
| Specialty definitions using "CRYOPRESERVATION": Dimethyl Sulfoxide. (references) |
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Health | Apoptosis (programmed cell death) in newly transplanted human corneas and human corneal cryopreservation will be studied in a xenograft model. (references) | |
Since patients who have become refractory to platelet transfusions during one course of chemotherapy will usually be difficult to treat during subsequent periods of chemotherapy-induced hypoplasia, their anticipated need can be met by the cryopreservation of autologous platelets obtained by apheresis during a remission. (references) | ||
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cryopreservation | 17 |
embryo cryopreservation | 7 |
egg cryopreservation | 3 |
boar cryopreservation sperm | 3 |
oocyte cryopreservation | 3 |
cryopreservation embryo mouse | 2 |
boar cryopreservation cryopreserved sperm | 2 |
abalone cryopreservation | 2 |
cryopreservation heart | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "CRYOPRESERVATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | cryoconservation. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | yopreservationcray criopreservación. (various references) | ||||||||||
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Words beginning with "CRYOPRESERVATION": cryopreservations. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-n-o-o-p-r-r-r-s-t-v-y" | |
-2 letters: reincorporates. | |
-3 letters: conservatoire, overreactions, reincorporate. | |
-4 letters: arsenopyrite, conservatory, cooperatives, cyproterones, incorporates, overreaction, preservation, procreations, reoperations, retroversion, reversionary, secretionary. | |
-5 letters: carpentries, conservator, conspirator, controversy, conveyorise, cooperative, corporative, cyproterone, incorporate, overactions, overreports, perorations, personative, procaryotes, procreation, procreative, procreators, recreations, reoperation, reservation, respiratory, retinoscopy, revocations, syncopative, transceiver, transpierce. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-n-o-o-p-r-r-r-s-t-v-y" | |
+1 letter: cryopreservations. | |
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