life-support system
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Definition(s):
- (n) equipment that makes life possible in otherwise deadly environmental conditions
- (n) medical equipment that assists or replaces important bodily functions and so enables a patient to live who otherwise might not survive
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- Likewise, it is fortunate that, on a small world spinning through an otherwise inhospitable universe, our life-support system is resilient.
- As she says so eloquently in our special issue, the oceans are our life-support system.
- Since swallowing an uninflated balloon and suffocating at a birthday party last August, little Samuel had been partly brain dead, kept alive by a life-support system.
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