mummification – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
mummification
n.
process of making into or becoming a mummy, embalming
Mummy
A
mummy is a deceased human or an animal whose
skin and
organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to
chemicals, extreme cold, very low
humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions. Some authorities restrict the use of the term to bodies deliberately
embalmed with chemicals, but the use of the word to cover accidentally
desiccated bodies goes back to at least 1615 AD (See the section Etymology and meaning).
mummification
Noun
1. a condition resembling that of a mummy; "bureaucratic mummification in red tape"
(hypernym) condition, status
(derivation) mummify
2. (pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a dark brown color
(synonym) dry gangrene, cold gangrene, mumification necrosis
(hypernym) gangrene, sphacelus, slough
(classification) pathology
3. embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy
(hypernym) embalmment
(derivation) mummify
Mummification
(n.)
The act of making a mummy.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
mummification
Synonyms and related words:
air-drying, anhydration, ashes, blast-freezing, body, bones, bottling, brining, cadaver, canning, carcass, carrion, clay, corning, corpse, corpus delicti, crowbait, curing, dead body, dead man, dead person, decedent, dehumidification, dehydration, desiccation, drainage, dry bones, dry-curing, drying, drying up, dust, earth, embalmed corpse, embalming, embalmment, evaporation, food for worms, freeze-drying, freezing, fuming, insolation, irradiation, jerking, late lamented, marination, mortal remains, mummy, organic remains, pickling, potting, quick-freezing, refrigeration, relics, reliquiae, remains, salting, seasoning, skeleton, smoking, stiff, stuffing, taxidermy, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, tinning, withering
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
