Usually means: Temporary cessation of apparent life.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word suspended animation:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. suspended animation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. suspended animation: Merriam-Webster
  3. suspended animation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. suspended animation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. suspended animation: Collins English Dictionary
  6. suspended animation: Vocabulary.com
  7. suspended animation: Wordnik
  8. suspended animation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. suspended animation: Wiktionary
  10. suspended animation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. suspended animation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. suspended animation: Dictionary.com
  13. Suspended Animation (The Monks album), Suspended Animation (film), Suspended animation (disambiguation), Suspended animation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. suspended animation: Rhymezone
  15. suspended animation: FreeDictionary.org
  16. suspended animation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. suspended animation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suspended animation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suspended animation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. suspended animation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. suspended animation: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (suspended animation)

noun:  A temporary cessation of breathing and consciousness resembling death; often the result of asphyxia.
noun:  (science fiction) The deliberate slowing of the body's functions, sometimes by the use of cryonics, on long interstellar journeys.

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