What is "cryonic"

Usage examples of "cryonic".

It was his parents who had opted for storage as a family unit, Mommy and Daddy and young Viktor all in the same capsule in the cryonic chambers, and once the process of resuscitating his father had well started the other two had already been much more than halfway back to life.

Certainly people wore out early from hard work, and there were always those handicapped older ones who had come out of cryonic suspension with a kind of freezer-burn that slowed them down, or limited their abilities, but otherwise people were pretty healthy.

For some reason these people had decided to revive him from cryonic suspension.

There was almost a collapse of the cryonic systems when the vaults were besieged by people demanding to reclaim parents and presidents.

Beneath them, avenues of cryonic freezers stretched away in parallel rows.

This is some kind of idiosyncratic cryonic damage on a cellular or subcellular level.

He let the light slide over the blade, and pressed it against his wrists, his throat, along the thin scars from his cryonic prep already slashed there.

A handful of others, mostly those without families below, also opted to remain on Orion and fit out the cryonic chambers for when the food ran out.

Duncan smiled as he looked down on the already drowsy form of Natasha Ralentov as she lay in her cryonic chamber alongside the other nine.

He looked round the room for the last time to check that each cryonic chamber was functioning correctly.

We just go in there and kill them outright by turning off the supply to the cryonic chambers.

One of his companions handed the dormant maws over to him, removing them, one by one, from their frosted cryonic traveling cases.

The team of green-gowned meditechs was starting to slide the corpse into the stainless-steel cylinder that would be his cryonic sarcophagus.

Even so, if Risa waited to make a decision, an emergency might require the use of the cryonic chamber now holding that embryo, and if no ectogenetic chamber was available for it then, the matter would be settled by disposing of the potential child.

How he can manage to do that while frozen in cryonic suspension beats the hell out of me, but those are his plans, or were his plans until I grappled him.