plastination

1. 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 (synset 113559517)
   "the plastination of specimens is valuable for research and teaching"
   is a type of: preservation - a process that saves organic substances from decay
   has:

   • fixation, fixing - (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
   • dehydration, desiccation, drying up, evaporation - the process of extracting moisture
   • curing, hardening, set, solidification, solidifying - the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
   • impregnation, saturation - the process of totally saturating something with a substance

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