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n. The preserving of a dead body, by making it into a mummy.

n. The act of making a mummy.

n. The process of mummifying, or making into a mummy.

n. In pathology, dry gangrene. See gangrene, 1.

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

n. a condition resembling that of a mummy

n. embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy

"Scientists acknowledge that most natural mummification is produced in the absence of water and in the presence of soil that is salty, or rich in nitrates and aluminum."

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