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adj. - Of or relating to the practice of freezing the body of a person who has died from a disease in hopes of restoring life at some future time when a cure for the disease has been developed

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  • This is one of the biggest challenges facing the field, and a big part of why, to date, no one in long-term cryonic suspension has been successfully revived.
  • Otherwise, you end up with a lethal cryonic hangover.
  • Wheels and clockwork and cryonic chips, Dave had said.
  • Her body frozen as if it were in a cryonic deep-freeze.
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