'Mummification' definitions:
Definition of 'mummification'
From: WordNet
noun
A condition resembling that of a mummy; "bureaucratic mummification in red tape"
noun
(pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a dark brown color [syn: dry gangrene, cold gangrene, mumification necrosis, mummification]
noun
Embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy
Definition of 'Mummification'
From: GCIDE
- Mummification \Mum`mi*fi*ca"tion\, n. [See Mummify.] The act of making a mummy. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mummification'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- air-drying,
- anhydration,
- ashes,
- blast-freezing,
- body,
- bones,
- bottling,
- brining,
- cadaver,
- canning,
- carcass,
- carrion,
- clay,
- corning,
- corpse,
- corpus delicti,
- crowbait,
- curing,
- dead body,
- dead man,
- dead person,
- decedent,
- dehumidification,
- dehydration,
- desiccation,
- drainage,
- dry bones,
- dry-curing,
- drying,
- drying up,
- dust,
- earth,
- embalmed corpse,
- embalming,
- embalmment,
- evaporation,
- food for worms,
- freeze-drying,
- freezing,
- fuming,
- insolation,
- irradiation,
- jerking,
- late lamented,
- marination,
- mortal remains,
- mummy,
- organic remains,
- pickling,
- potting,
- quick-freezing,
- refrigeration,
- relics,
- reliquiae,
- remains,
- salting,
- seasoning,
- skeleton,
- smoking,
- stiff,
- stuffing,
- taxidermy,
- tenement of clay,
- the dead,
- the deceased,
- the defunct,
- the departed,
- the loved one,
- tinning,
- withering