mummification

mummification
    n 1: a condition resembling that of a mummy; "bureaucratic
         mummification in red tape"
    2: (pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of
       arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the
       dead tissue and a dark brown color [syn: {dry gangrene},
       {cold gangrene}, {mumification necrosis}, {mummification}]
    3: embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy
    

Mummification \Mum`mi*fi*ca"tion\, n. [See {Mummify}.]
   The act of making a mummy.
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70 Moby Thesaurus words for "mummification":
      air-drying, anhydration, ashes, blast-freezing, body, bones,
      bottling, brining, cadaver, canning, carcass, carrion, clay,
      corning, corpse, corpus delicti, crowbait, curing, dead body,
      dead man, dead person, decedent, dehumidification, dehydration,
      desiccation, drainage, dry bones, dry-curing, drying, drying up,
      dust, earth, embalmed corpse, embalming, embalmment, evaporation,
      food for worms, freeze-drying, freezing, fuming, insolation,
      irradiation, jerking, late lamented, marination, mortal remains,
      mummy, organic remains, pickling, potting, quick-freezing,
      refrigeration, relics, reliquiae, remains, salting, seasoning,
      skeleton, smoking, stiff, stuffing, taxidermy, tenement of clay,
      the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one,
      tinning, withering