suspended animation in organisms during periods of extreme drought from which they revive when moisture returns.
Here at the Global vault, hundreds of gray boxes containing seeds from places ranging from Syria to Mexico were moved this week into a freezing vault to be placed in suspended animation.
She lay in a state of suspended animation, waiting for dawnlight, when she would rise.
I have given you a life of suspended animation.
suspended animation
But thinking about suspended animation suggests that we may actually need a third category, suspended — neither alive nor dead.
The soldiers aren't the only characters in "Kafka at the Shore" who have chosen suspended animation over suffering the depredations of time and loss.
Low doses of hydrogen sulphide, a gas which smells like rotten egg, can safely reduce the metabolism of mice, putting them into a state of suspended animation.
