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Cryo- is from the Ancient Greek κρύος (krúos, “ ice, icy cold, chill, frost”). Uses of the prefix Cryo- include:


Physics and geology

* Cryogenics, the study of the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures and the study of producing extremely low temperatures * Cryoelectronics, the study of superconductivity under cryogenic conditions and its applications * Cryosphere, those portions of Earth's surface where water ice naturally occurs * Cryotron, a switch that uses superconductivity * Cryovolcano, a theoretical type of volcano that erupts volatiles instead of molten rock


Biology and medicine

* Cryobiology, the branch of biology that studies the effects of low temperatures on living things * Cryonics, the low-temperature preservation of people who cannot be sustained by contemporary medicine * Cryoprecipitate, a blood-derived protein product used to treat some bleeding disorders * Cryotherapy, medical treatment using cold ** Cryoablation, tissue removal using cold ** Cryosurgery, surgery using cold * Cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM), a technique that fires beams of electrons at proteins that have been frozen in solution, to deduce the biomolecules’ structure


Other uses

* Cryo Interactive, a video game company * Cryos, a planet in the video game '' Darkspore''


See also

* * Kryo, a brand of CPUs by Qualcomm


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