cryobiologyn.
/ˌkrʌɪə(ʊ)bʌɪˈɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˌkraɪoʊˌbaɪˈɑlədʒi/ The branch of biology concerned with organisms, tissues, etc., cooled to temperatures lower than those at which they normally function; low-temperature biology.
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the world > life > biology > study > [noun] > ecology > specific habitats
marine biology1880
limnology1893
limnobiology1899
cryobiology1921
hydro-biology1928
soil biology1928
aerobiology1937
astrobiology1941
gnotobiotics1949
saprobiology1958
gnotobiology1963
1921 Proc. Section Sci. Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam 23 235 Kryo-biology... By P. Gilbert Rahm... Communicated by Prof. H. Kamerlingh Onnes.
1961 Lancet 16 Sept. 657/2 At the cryobiology laboratories..A. Rowe..demonstrated new apparatus for the..low-temperature storage of bone-marrow.
1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 11 Sept. (Weekend section) 1 One of only two people in this country with a doctorate in cryobiology, pioneered this method of preserving animals.
2003 Focus July 73/3 Scientists who work in the field of cryobiology..say that freezing individual cells is a far cry from preserving an entire human body.
Derivatives
ˌcryobiˈologist n. an expert or specialist in cryobiology.
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the world > life > biology > study > person who studies > [noun] > ecology
migrationist1845
marine biologist1885
synecologist1913
ecologist1930
hydro-biologist1932
cryobiologist1962
saprobiologist1965
1962 Business Week 16 June 72/1 Cryobiologists have come up with two ways to preserve cells by freezing.
1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 28 Mar. (Careers Suppl.) 21 Most present-day cryogenicists and cryobiologists seem to have begun life as..engineers.
2004 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 18 Sept. 6 Dipping into Chambers' Dictionary of Literary Characters is like looking through a cryobiologist's deepfreeze.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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