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2.
[syn: dry gangrene, cold gangrene, mumification necrosis, mummification]
3. embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mummification \Mum`mi*fi*ca"tion\, n. [See Mummify.]
The act of making a mummy.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mummification
n 1: a condition resembling that of a mummy; "bureaucratic
mummification in red tape"
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 [syn: dry gangrene,
cold gangrene, mumification necrosis, mummification]
3: embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "mummification":
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