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Definition of Mummifies
1. mummify [v] - See also: mummify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mummifies
Literary usage of Mummifies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"If the amount of liquid contained in the tissue be small in quantity the part
mummifies, giving rise to what is known as " dry gangrene. ..."
2. Journal of the American Medical Association by American Medical Association (1890)
"... parallel steel bars (Keith's clamp), and bring it outside of the abdominal
wound, where the constricted portion of the stump mummifies or sloughs off. ..."
3. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology by Henry Cadwalader Chapman (1892)
"Thus, in the sandy deserts of Arabia and Africa, a dead body, losing rapidly its
fluids, dries up and mummifies. On the other hand, bodies buried naked or ..."
4. Pre-historic America by William Healey Dall (1885)
"They do not emit any smell, on account of the skins in which they are strongly
sewn up, and also on account of the cold, which rapidly mummifies them. ..."
5. Principles and practice of obstetrics by Joseph Bolivar De Lee (1918)
"After the fetus dies it mummifies and shrinks up, its quor is absorbed, and the
uterus applies itself closely to the body. ..."
6. The Elements of Geography by Rollin D. Salisbury, Harlan Harland Barrows, Walter Sheldon Tower (1912)
"... giving the so-called "jerked beef," and even "burial" of the dead may be on
high platforms in regions where dry air quickly mummifies the body. ..."
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