mummification

Noun

• embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy

• (pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a dark brown color

• a condition resembling that of a mummy
  • bureaucratic mummification in red tape
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  dry gangrene , cold gangrene , mumification necrosis