X-Message-Number: 12413
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:51:34 +0400
From: Mikhail Soloviev <>
Subject: Re: Message #12407 - cryopause

>> Find another term.
>> Programmed deanimation.  
>> Pre-mortem suspension.
>> Cryo-supression of biochemical metabolism.  
>> Low-temperature interruption of cellular homeostasis.  
>> Chemo-structural freeze-lock.

> how about "cryopause?"

Sounds interesting -- cf. "diapause" (from Greek "diapausis") -- 
the state of physiological rest (usually seasonal, e.g. winter sleep 
of animals).

-- Mikhail Soloviev

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