Dictionary Definition
mummification
Noun
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
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The preserving of a dead body, by making it into a mummy.
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Mummification may refer to:
- Creation of a mummy, preserving a dead body
- Mummification (BDSM), a sexual bondage experience
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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