Mummification
[n] embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy
[n] a condition resembling that of a mummy; "bureaucratic mummification in red tape"
[n] (pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a dark brown color
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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, desicca