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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
the plastination of specimens is valuable for research and teaching
How To Use plastination In A Sentence
- The bodies were preserved using a method called plastination.
- A giant squid, one of only three in the world to undergo a preserving process called plastination, went on display at AUT University on Thursday and will give students and researchers a unique look at the animal. UnderwaterTimes.com News of the Underwater World
- Maverick German anatomist Gunther von Hagens is the inventor of "plastination," a process by which the body and fat in a corpse is replaced with a polymer. Boing Boing: November 28, 2004 - December 4, 2004 Archives
- In the film, a clandestine brotherhood of doctors and med students perform these artistic autopsies and subsequent plastinations on living students.
- Partnered with the Dalian Medical University and the plastination lab operated there by Dr. Sui Hongjin (a former partner of von Hagens '), the company does not own the bodies used in the show, but instead has them on loan from the school. Sound Politics: Something Smells About The Chinese Corpses On Display In Seattle
- The exhibition features 175 healthy and diseased body parts and 25 whole bodies, which have been preserved in a process called plastination, where fluids are drained and exchanged for plastic.
- the plastination of specimens is valuable for research and teaching
- The exhibition shows 200 individual, authentic anatomical and whole body specimens preserved with a special technique called plastination, invented by the creator of the exhibition.
- He used a process called plastination to preserve the bodies, which he developed over the past 25 years.
- Dismayingly, the same lab is operated by a former partner of plastination pioneer and anatomist Gunther von Hagens of "Body Worlds" fame. von Hagens, the son a former Nazi SS officer, himself has served as a visiting professor at Dalian Medical University, and for some of his international plastination exhibits received from China the corpses of apparently-executed prisoners. Sound Politics: Something Smells About The Chinese Corpses On Display In Seattle
