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Mummification

In medical jurisprudence. A term applied to the complete drying up of the body. It is the result « burial in a dry, hot soil, or the exposure of the body to a continuously cold and dry at-mosphere. 15 Amer. & Eng. Enc. Law, 261

Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)