plastination

Noun plastination has 1 sense

• plastination(n = noun.process) - 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 teaching"
has parts: fixation, fixing, dehydration, desiccation, drying up, evaporation, curing, hardening, set, solidification, solidifying, impregnation, saturation
is a kind of preservation
Derived form verb plastinate₁