Freeze-drying and Suspended animation

Freeze-drying noun - A method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes.

Suspended animation and freeze-drying are semantically related In some cases you can replace phrase "Suspended animation" with "Freeze-drying", this phrases are similar.

Suspended animation noun - A state of temporary inactivity.

Freeze-drying and suspended animation are semantically related in temporary slowdown of functions topic. You can use "Freeze-drying" instead a noun phrase "Suspended animation".