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What is plastination?

What is plastination? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) A technique for preserving bodies or body parts by replacing the water and fat with certain plastics.
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The bodies were preserved using a method called plastination.
To others he is an accomplished anatomist who, through his invention of plastination, has brought an understanding of the human body to lay people.
The plastination process that preserves the cell tissue seems to also remove any trace of humanity.
After considerable experimentation, Scheidemann figured out how to bake a new cake and then preserve it using a process called plastination, which removes the fats from a foodstuff and replaces them with resin.
And what can we say about plastination, a new way for the body to survive, developed at the Heidelberg Institute in Germany?
The inventor of plastination and director of the Institute for Plastination does not call himself an artist, but prefers the terms inventor and scientist.

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