Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To preserve (cells or tissue, for example) by freezing at very low temperatures.
Wiktionary
- v. To preserve something (especially biological tissue) by freezing it and holding it a very low temperature
Etymologies
- cryo- + preserve. (Wiktionary)
Examples
““Do they cryopreserve the people dead or alive?” inquired a barefoot, pretty hotel patron named Dee Lakhani, lounging on a white divan under a canopy and smoking a Marlboro (“I will be the first to go!”).”
Stephen Valentine's Cyronics Book Celebrated at Southampton's Pink Elephant
“We achieved some important milestones this year, including learning more about the larvae rearing process, and we were able to cryopreserve the endangered coral sperm.”
“But what those strips never mentioned, because nobody had yet figured out a way to procure, process, isolate and cryopreserve them, is that the uterine lining contains millions of stem cells with similar properties and characteristics to those of both bone marrow and embryonic stem cells.”
“Célle was introduced in November, 2007 as the first and only service that empowers women to collect and cryopreserve menstrual flow containing undifferentiated adult stem cells for future potential utilization by the donor or possibly first-degree relatives in a manner similar to umbilical cord blood stem cells.”
“The CélleSM service was introduced in November 2007 as the first and only service that empowers women to collect and cryopreserve menstrual flow containing undifferentiated adult stem cells for future utilization by the donor or possibly their first-degree relatives in a manner similar to umbilical cord blood stem cells.”
“We understand the effects that high-risk pregnancy can have on mothers and families and we are hoping to inform women undergoing amniocentesis that they have a unique opportunity to cryopreserve amniotic fluid stem cells as a biological insurance for the future.”
“The C'elle (SM) service is based on Cryo-Cell's expansive IP technology portfolio and was introduced in November, 2007 as the first and only service that empowers women to collect and cryopreserve menstrual flow containing undifferentiated adult stem cells for future utilization by the donor or possibly first-degree relatives in a manner similar to umbilical cord blood stem cells.”
“NeoStem has developed processes to harvest and cryopreserve these very small embryonic-like stem cells from individual patients for future medical use.”
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