life support
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life support noun
- An artificial system designed to provide oxygen in an environment that lacks oxygen.
- Maintenance of vital functions of a critically ill or comatose person or a person undergoing surgery.
- The equipment and special procedures used for life support.
- 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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