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单词 life support
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Definition of life support in English:

life support

noun
mass noun
  • The use of specialized equipment to maintain a person's essential physical functions when they are very ill or in an environment such as space or under water.

    his wife decided to remove him from life support and take him home to die with hospice care
    a patient on life support
    figurative the measures might get the technology sector off life support
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Systems that use living organisms to perform life support system functions are called bioregenerative life-support systems.
    • For example, suppose a doctor refuses to withdraw life support from an incompetent patient when the clinical team agrees it to be appropriate.
    • He was put on a life-support machine but died the following Tuesday.
    • Under the current system, most organs are donated by patients on life support machines who die after suffering irreversible brain damage.
    • Children with febrile seizures received routine life support on admission to hospital.
    Synonyms
    nurture, feeding
 
 

Definition of life support in US English:

life support

nounlaɪf səˈpɔrt
  • The use of specialized equipment to maintain a person's essential physical functions when they are very ill or in an environment such as space or under water.

    his wife decided to remove him from life support and take him home to die with hospice care
    a patient on life support
    figurative the measures might get the technology sector off life support
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Under the current system, most organs are donated by patients on life support machines who die after suffering irreversible brain damage.
    • For example, suppose a doctor refuses to withdraw life support from an incompetent patient when the clinical team agrees it to be appropriate.
    • Children with febrile seizures received routine life support on admission to hospital.
    • He was put on a life-support machine but died the following Tuesday.
    • Systems that use living organisms to perform life support system functions are called bioregenerative life-support systems.
    Synonyms
    nurture, feeding
 
 
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