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preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes
The doctor plastinates bodies to teach anatomy to his students
How To Use plastinate In A Sentence
- U.S. Customs has said that since the plastination process changes the nature of the human remains, plastinated body parts can be imported as plastic objects, not as human bodies. NYC 'Bodies' Exhibit Must Refund Tickets For Using Undocumented Corpses - The Consumerist
- The horse's plastinated shanks and neck muscles convey an impression of overwhelming power.
- While von Hagens is keen to keep the pose of the superstar's plastinate under wraps, he hinted that the moonwalk position would naturally be favoured.
- The doctor plastinates bodies to teach anatomy to his students
- One plastinate is modelled on Salvador Dali's 1936/37 painting ‘Burning Giraffe’.
