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corpsicle

n. A person who has been cryonically frozen in the hope of later revival in science fiction.

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Corpsicle
This article is about a term. For the television episode, see List of Pushing Daisies episodes.

Corpsicle is a term that has been used in science fiction to refer to a corpse that has been cryonically cryopreserved. It is a portmanteau of "corpse" and " popsicle".

Usage examples of "corpsicle".

That test made Corbell suspect that a good many corpsicles must date from near his own death in 1970.

But at some point Pierce had mentioned that Corbell was the fourth corpsicle personality to be tested in that empty body.

His home was gone and he would have gone with it if it weren't for the corpsicle crypts.

Corbell the reconstituted corpsicle would never carve out a normal life for himself.

Hot water churned with bubbles and the currents generated by a couple on the far side: Gording and the older woman who had been his first since the corpsicle tank.

The point is that if the second Freezer Bill passes, about threee hundred thousand corpsicles will be declared formally dead.

The arguments for the second Freezer Bill were not much different The corpsicles named in group two had money, but they were insane.

At the hospital we don't even know where the spare parts come from: criminals, corpsicles, captured organleggers' stocks, it all looks the same.

He thought we might find that a coalition of organleggers had pooled advertising money to keep the corpsicles off the market.

The corpsicles they want are the ones who were healthiest, the ones who have the best chance of being brought -back to life some day.

The publicity on the corpsicle heirs: they may have had a hand in that too.

The idea would be to kidnap all of the top corpsicle heirs just before the Bill passes.

The publicity on the corpsicle heirs may have done him some good, started girls chasing him for a change.

We were sore tempted to tell all of the corpsicle heirs what was happening, and have them check in with us at regular intervals.

But we didn't want to alert our quarry, the still hypothetical coalition of organleggers now monitoring the same corpsicle heirs we were interested in.