Mummification

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mummification \Mum`mi*fi*ca"tion\, n. [See {Mummify}.]
     The act of making a mummy.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  mummification
       n 1: a condition resembling that of a mummy; "bureaucratic
            mummification in red tape"
       2: (pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of
          arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of
          the dead tissue and a dark brown color [syn: {dry gangrene},
           {cold gangrene}, {mumification necrosis}]
       3: embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "mummification":
     air-drying, anhydration, ashes, blast-freezing, body, bones,
     bottling, brining, cadaver, canning, carcass, carrion, clay,
     corning, corpse, corpus delicti, crowbait, curing, dead body,
     dead man, dead person, decedent, dehumidification, dehydration,
     desiccation, drainage, dry bones, dry-curing, drying, drying up,
     dust, earth, embalmed corpse, embalming, embalmment, evaporation,
     food for worms, freeze-drying, freezing, fuming, insolation,
     irradiation, jerking, late lamented, marination, mortal remains,
     mummy, organic remains, pickling, potting, quick-freezing,
     refrigeration, relics, reliquiae, remains, salting, seasoning,
     skeleton, smoking, stiff, stuffing, taxidermy, tenement of clay,
     the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one,
     tinning, withering