Suspended Animation Definition

sə-spĕndĭd
noun
A temporary cessation of some vital functions, as in hibernation.
Webster's New World
A temporary state of interrupted breathing and loss of consciousness resembling death, caused especially by asphyxia.
American Heritage Medicine
In science fiction, a state resembling hibernation, induced artificially as to ensure survival over a long period of time.
Webster's New World

Suspended Animation Sentence Examples

  • They crushed a civilization already hard hit; and it took two or three centuries for the artistic spirit, instinct in the Aegean area, and probably preserved in suspended animation by the survival of Aegean racial elements, to blossom anew.

  • The life of many lichens thus consists of alternating periods of activity when moisture is plentiful, and completely suspended animation under conditions of dryness.

  • The process of change cannot be placed in suspended animation because unionism cannot come to terms with new political realties.

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