Cryonicist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kɹaɪˈɒnɪsɪst/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cryonicist is a noun meaning One who works in the field of cryonics.
Meaning
One who works in the field of cryonics.
More Meanings
- A person who is, or who wishes to be, preserved cryonically.
Example Sentences
This will not always be the fault of the patient or anyone else; a cryonicist may die in a plane crash, reduced to ashes with nothing left to freeze.
Titled “The Brain Preservation Technology Prize: A challenge to cryonicists, a challenge to scientists,” it argued that if a brain was properly preserved, time would not be an issue.
Cryonics was in its infancy then, and cryobiologists were hard to find, let alone cryonicists. The former believed the body could be frozen in pieces; the latter that it could be frozen whole.
To cryonicists, the chance of resuscitation is worth the money required to fund cryonic suspension arrangements. If resuscitation proves impossible, they reason, you are no “deader” than you would have been without suspension […]
Word Forms
- cryonicists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cryogenicist, cryonaut, cryosurgeon, cryotherapist, craniographer, cremationist.
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