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cryoprotecting

cryoprotecting is the present participle and gerund of cryoprotect.

Meaning of cryoprotect

Verb

cryoprotect (third-person singular simple present cryoprotects, present participle cryoprotecting, simple past and past participle cryoprotected)

  1. To protect biological tissue from the effects of cold by use of a cryoprotectant.

Questions about cryoprotecting

What is cryoprotecting the present participle and gerund of?
Cryoprotecting is the present participle and gerund of cryoprotect.

Words near cryoprotecting in the dictionary

  1. cryoprostatectomy
  2. cryoprotect
  3. cryoprotectant
  4. cryoprotectants
  5. cryoprotected
  6. cryoprotecting
  7. cryoprotection
  8. cryoprotections
  9. cryoprotective
  10. cryoprotectively
  11. cryoprotector

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cryoprotecting (page history and authors); cryoprotect (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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