How to pronounce “suspended animation”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A temporary cessation of breathing and consciousness resembling death; often the result of asphyxia.
• (science fiction) The deliberate slowing of the body's functions, sometimes by the use of cryonics, on long interstellar journeys.

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