Plastination--an unrevealed art in the medical science.

Abstract

lastination is a technique used in anatomy to preserve bodies or body parts. Even though a major German encyclopaedia (the 19th edition of the Brockhaus Encyclopaedia, 1992) indicates that the word Plastination is derived from the Greek (from plassein = to shape, to form), the term is, in fact, a creation of Gunther von Hagens in 1978. He coined the term because plastification already had a fixed meaning in the field of polymer chemistry, and the expression used in the original patents of 1977-1978, was not terribly catchy and was utterly inadequate for popularizing the new technology, particularly abroad.