Cryo
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 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
- "Cryo", a song from the album R Plus Seven by Oneohtrix Point Never
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Cryo
- Kryo, a brand of CPUs by Qualcomm
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