PLASTINATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plastinate mean? 

• PLASTINATE (verb)
  The verb PLASTINATE has 1 sense:

1. preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes

  Familiarity information: PLASTINATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLASTINATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they plastinate    ... he / she / it plastinates   
Past simple: plastinated   
Past participle: plastinated   
-ing form: plastinating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

The doctor plastinates bodies to teach anatomy to his students

Hypernyms (to "plastinate" is one way to...):

conserve; keep up; maintain; preserve (keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

plastination (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)