See Also: tissue preservation(medicine)
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tissue preservation (medicine)


tissue preservation


The process by which a tissue or aggregate of cells is kept alive outside of the organism from which it was derived (i.e., to keep from decay by means of a chemical agent, cooling, or a fluid substitute that mimics the natural state within the organism).