Definition of "cryostasis" []

• The preservation of living organisms by employing low temperatures. (noun)

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• "Had you asked him then, he’d certianly have wanted his body treated well while he was out, and you yourself would want the same if you thought you were going to be (temporarily) comatose or in cryostasis."
• "But the only way to get to earth without wasting a lifetime or two, without the other alternative of cryostasis — something about which Clamm had his doubts anyway — the only way was by means of the Transcendental Arrangement."
• "Finally released from the frozen half life of cryostasis, Division Commander Sergei Orlof, his XO Lieutenant Colonel John Derbyshire and division CSM Paul Walker painfully stepped from their tanks for the first time in nearly eighteen months."