mummification
(mʌmɪfɪˈkeɪʃən)
[f. mummify v. (see -fication) after F. momification.]
1. The process of mummifying or the condition of being mummied. Also fig.
| 1800 tr. Lagrange's Chem. II. 430 Mummification, the means by which saints were fabricated, is a thing not uncommon. 1887 J. H. McCarthy in Gentl. Mag. Mar. 297 If indeed the epithet ‘Chinese’, as applied to such a condition of torpidity of mummification, be not an insult to the Celestial empire. |
2. Path. A drying of the animal tissues.
| 1857 Bullock Cazeaux' Midwif. 251 At other times, it seems to have undergone a kind of mummification, a complete drying up. 1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. (ed. 2) 11 The limb..may dry up..and become converted into a black shrunken mass, which undergoes but little further change:—this constitutes Dry Gangrene or Mummification. |