| NOUN | process | plastination | a process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues |
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| Meaning | 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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| Example | "the plastination of specimens is valuable for research and teaching" | |
| Parts | dehydration, desiccation, drying up, evaporation | The process of extracting moisture |
| fixation, fixing | (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body | |
| hardening, solidifying, solidification, set, curing | The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | |
| impregnation, saturation | The process of totally saturating something with a substance | |
| Broader | preservation | A process that saves organic substances from decay |
| Spanish | plastinación | |
| Verbs | plastinate | preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes |
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