English language
Toggle Transcript
Examples of plastinate
plastinate
To plastinate a mature sperm whale, known to have a taste for giant squid.
From the newscientist.com
More than 8,000 people have been plastinate donors, including eight people from Wisconsin.
From the jsonline.com
Each plastinate body costs between $60,000 and $100,000.
From the jsonline.com
The exhibition features approximately 100 plastinate and capillary specimens displaying the anatomical structure of many spectacular creatures.
From the metro.co.uk
- Preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes; "The doctor plastinates bodies to teach anatomy to his students"
- (plastination) 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 ...
- Plastination is a technique used in anatomy to preserve bodies or body parts. The water and fat are replaced by certain plastics, yielding specimens that can be touched, do not smell or decay, and even retain most properties of the original sample.
- (plastination) A way to preserve dissected specimens after death.
