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Life Support

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Noun

1. life support, life-support system

equipment that makes life possible in otherwise deadly environmental conditions

Example Sentences:
'the astronauts relied on their life-support systems'

2. life support, life-support system

medical equipment that assists or replaces important bodily functions and so enables a patient to live who otherwise might not survive

Example Sentences:
'the patient is on life support'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Life Support

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noun
1. 
maintaining a person's vital functions in severe illness or disability
2. informal
an informal way of referring to a life-support machine or system
adjective
of or providing the equipment required to sustain human life in an unnatural environment, such as in space, or in severe illness or disability

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Life Support

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adjective
1.  Engineering
designating or of any system that enables normal living in space, under water, etc.
2.  Medicine
designating or of any device or system, usually connected directly to a patient, that can take over for a vital body organ or function that is failing or has failed

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Life Support

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n.
A life-support system: a patient on life support.
adj.
Of or relating to the methods, equipment, or conditions needed to sustain life.

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