cryo-, cry-, kryo-, kry- +

Pain caused by cold (freezing).

The relief of pain by application of cold with a cryoprobe to peripheral nerves.

1. Localized application of cold as a means of producing regional anesthesia.
2. Inability to perceive cold.
3. Loss of the perception of cold, as during hypothermia or from the application of certain freezing compounds.

Also the intentional application of cold (such as, with liquid nitrogen, etc.) to produce anesthesia for a short duration operation; that is, as with the lancing of a boil, removal of a nevus, cosmetic “sandpapering” of the skin, etc.

Having cold feet.

1. A subjective sensation of cold.
2. Sensitiveness to cold.

A procedure in which extreme cold is applied to a tumor using a cryoprobe, a hollow needle-like device filled with argon gas.

The gas quickly freezes the targeted tumor.

Cryoablation appears to be an effective treatment for cancerous kidney tumors; however, follow-up studies are needed before the procedure can be widely applied, according to Thomas Atwell, M.D., a Mayo Clinic radiologist and the study's primary investigator.

The general criteria for cryoablation includes the size and appearance of the tumor and the number of lesions in the kidney.

For patients who undergo surgery, the hospital stay and recovery period are longer as compared to patients treated with cryoablation because patients who undergo cryoablation will have small quarter inch incision where the cryoprobe is inserted and the mark is covered with a bandage and recovery usually amounts to one day in a hospital, as compared to several days for patients who undergo surgery.

1. The removal of a body part, such as a wart, by freezing: "Some people need cryoablutions by a doctor to get rid of undesirable warts which are local growths on the outer layer of the skin (epidermis) caused by a virus."
2. Etymology: the transliteration of cryoablution is "freeze bath" or "freeze wash" and is performed with special instruments for local freezing of diseased tissues without any significant harm to normal adjacent structures.

The storage of a material; such as, hydrogen, by means of carbon adsorption at low temperatures.

Adsorption is the accumulation of gases, liquids, or solutes on the surface of a solid or liquid.

The freezing of the skin with ice, carbon dioxide snow, or the evaporation of ethyl chloride.

It is used in preparing the skin for the surgical excision of superficial tumors, incisions, and drainage.

A facility for freezing and preserving semen and body tissues at low temperatures, usually by immersion in liquid nitrogen at -196.5 degrees Centigrade.

A specialist in the effects of low temperatures on biological systems.

1. The study of the effects of low temperatures on living organisms or biological systems; especially, warm-blooded animals.
2. The study of life and its constituents below its normal living temperature, including cryogenic temperatures (below -80 degrees Centigrade).

In physiology, the carrying on of bodily functions at low temperatures.

The birth of an organism from a frozen embryo.

Usually a fiberglass-stainless steel capsule (tank) where a "deanimated" body is placed for cryonic storage.