Definitions
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- verb preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes
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Examples
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He says those bodies were given to him by a medical school in China to plastinate for teaching models.
NYC 'Bodies' Exhibit Must Refund Tickets For Using Undocumented Corpses - The Consumerist 2008
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Yesterday, he declared: 'An agreement is in place to plastinate the King of Pop.'
Archive 2009-06-28 Bill Crider 2009
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Yesterday, he declared: 'An agreement is in place to plastinate the King of Pop.'
Plastinated Bill Crider 2009
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The church even asked von Hagens to plastinate the heelbone of Hildegard of Bingen.
The body--it's worth looking into Fr Timothy Matkin 2007
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Now, von Hagens is preparing to plastinate a giant squid in his Heidelberg laboratory.
Boing Boing: November 28, 2004 - December 4, 2004 Archives 2004
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What do u want done with your body when you die: watever. i don need it anymore. u can burn it. donate it. plastinate it. preserve it. display it. just make sure it's in good condition before u display it, don't want my reputation to be ruined.
overthefence Diary Entry overthefence 2006
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Parkinson's disease and that his wife "will plastinate my body,"
NYT > Home Page By STEVEN ERLANGER 2011
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Parkinson's disease and that his wife "will plastinate my body,"
NYT > Global Home By STEVEN ERLANGER 2011
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My wife Angelina Whalley, the curator of the Body Worlds exhibition, will plastinate my body.
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My wife Angelina Whalley, the curator of the Body Worlds exhibition, will plastinate my body.
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