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What is life support?

What is life support? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An artificial system designed to provide oxygen in an environment that lacks oxygen.
  2. (medicine) Maintenance of vital functions of a critically ill or comatose person or a person undergoing surgery.
  3. (medicine) The equipment and special procedures used for life support.
  4. (figuratively) Means of sustaining existence or continuation of something, usually in an artificial manner when it should have changed or terminated in its natural environment.
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Her face was ashen as she fumbling with her helmet, and I realized that her life support and backup had failed.
They did a dummy run first with a nurse and all the life support equipment, then it was for real and they took her.
A pilot prepares for a mission, getting dressed in the life support room before leaving for the flightline and his waiting aircraft.
A brain-dead Virginia woman on life support has given birth now to a baby girl.
The ship was plunged into total darkness as the engines drained power from everything except themselves and life support.
Basic life support training is recommended for all nurses in the preoperative care unit.

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