- plastination - a process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues; water and lipids are replaced by curable polymers (silicone or epoxy or polyester) that are subsequently hardened; "the plastination of specimens is valuable for research and teaching"
--1 is a kind of preservation
--1 has parts:fixation, fixing; dehydration, desiccation, drying up, evaporation; hardening, solidifying, solidification, set, curing; impregnation, saturation Derived form: verb plastinate1