Portal:Technology/Selected articles/20: Difference between revisions
Undid revision 280252573 by 24.73.12.203 (talk) |
Lucasbfrbot (talk | contribs) m Replaced File:Surgery.jpg by its duplicate on Commons File:Cryo surgery.jpg |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{Portal:Technology/Selected articles/Layout| |
{{Portal:Technology/Selected articles/Layout| |
||
|image= |
|image=Cryo Cryo Cryo surgery.jpg |
||
|caption=Technicians prepare a patient for cryopreservation |
|caption=Technicians prepare a patient for cryopreservation |
||
|text='''Cryonics''' is the low-temperature [[Preserve|preservation]] of [[human]]s and [[animal]]s that can no longer be sustained by contemporary [[medicine]] until [[resuscitation]] may be possible in the future. Currently, human [[cryopreservation]] is not [[Reversible reaction|reversible]], which means that it is not currently possible to bring people out of cryopreservation. The rationale for cryonics is that people who are dead by the current legal or medical definitions are not necessarily dead by the [[Information-theoretic death|information-theoretic definition of death]] and that people could be brought out of cryopreservation in the future. |
|text='''Cryonics''' is the low-temperature [[Preserve|preservation]] of [[human]]s and [[animal]]s that can no longer be sustained by contemporary [[medicine]] until [[resuscitation]] may be possible in the future. Currently, human [[cryopreservation]] is not [[Reversible reaction|reversible]], which means that it is not currently possible to bring people out of cryopreservation. The rationale for cryonics is that people who are dead by the current legal or medical definitions are not necessarily dead by the [[Information-theoretic death|information-theoretic definition of death]] and that people could be brought out of cryopreservation in the future. |
||
Revision as of 15:12, 9 May 2009
Cryonics is the low-temperature preservation of humans and animals that can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine until resuscitation may be possible in the future. Currently, human cryopreservation is not reversible, which means that it is not currently possible to bring people out of cryopreservation. The rationale for cryonics is that people who are dead by the current legal or medical definitions are not necessarily dead by the information-theoretic definition of death and that people could be brought out of cryopreservation in the future.
In the United States, cryonics can only be legally performed on humans after they have been pronounced legally dead.
The word cryonics is derived from the Greek word κρύος (kryos), meaning cold.