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 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

• All pages with titles beginning with Cryo
• Kryo, a brand of CPUs by Qualcomm

External links

The dictionary definition of cryo- at Wiktionary