life support
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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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Usage(s):
- Eventually, the life support was suspended and he died.
- That is not to say that they would advocate for a patient to decide to stay on life support indefinitely.
- In the past six weeks, two officers have been killed, and one recently got off life support after a gunman on a motorcycle shot him in the head.
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