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mummification

noun

1 mummification

A condition resembling that of a mummy.

2 mummification

pathology Gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a dark brown color.

synonyms: cold gangrene, dry gangrene, mumification necrosis.

3 mummification

Embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy.


Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.

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