Noun: mummification ,mú-mu-fi'key-shun
- Embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy
"The ancient Egyptians perfected the art of mummification to preserve their pharaohs for the afterlife"
- A condition resembling that of a mummy
"bureaucratic mummification in red tape"
- (pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a dark brown colour
"The patient's untreated frostbite led to mummification in his toes";
- dry gangrene, cold gangrene, mumification necrosis
Derived forms: mummifications
Type of: condition, embalmment, gangrene, slough, sphacelus, status
Encyclopedia: Mummification