SUSPENDED ANIMATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suspended animation mean? 

• SUSPENDED ANIMATION (noun)
  The noun SUSPENDED ANIMATION has 1 sense:

1. a temporary cessation of vital functions with loss of consciousness resembling death; usually resulting from asphyxia

  Familiarity information: SUSPENDED ANIMATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUSPENDED ANIMATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A temporary cessation of vital functions with loss of consciousness resembling death; usually resulting from asphyxia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("suspended animation" is a kind of...):

physical condition; physiological condition; physiological state (the condition or state of the body or bodily functions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "suspended animation"):

anabiosis (suspended animation in organisms during periods of extreme drought from which they revive when moisture returns)