NOUN
- a temporary cessation of vital functions with loss of consciousness resembling death; usually resulting from asphyxia
How To Use suspended animation In A Sentence
- The whole project is in suspended animation while we wait for permission to proceed.
- The hotel heiress is keen to live forever and has invested a large sum of money in the world's biggest suspended animation cemetery, Cryonics Institute. Archive 2007-10-21
- Mr. Ettinger's enthusiasm for suspended animation proved infectious: At least a half-dozen other cryonic-suspension organizations exist in the U.S., Russia and Portugal, with hundreds of frozen clients awaiting revivification. Pursuing Immortality, He Followed a Frozen Path
- She lay in a state of suspended animation, waiting for dawnlight, when she would rise.
- Hibernating animals survive the winter in suspended animation.
- Scientists have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.
- The main characteristic that allowed un-hatched "Sea-Monkeys" to be cheaply packaged, shipped, and handled is that in easily prepared environments, they enter cryptobiosis, a natural state of suspended animation. Archive 2008-03-01
- She lay in a state of suspended animation, waiting for dawnlight, when she would rise.
- We no longer possess the Susan Membrane that would allow a Marine to enter a state of suspended animation.
- The families are so caught up in an illogical belief in the emotional catharsis of execution that they remain in a state of suspended animation for years at a time.