life support
Noun
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Noun
life support (uncountable)
- An artificial system designed to provide oxygen in an environment that lacks oxygen.
- (medicine) Maintenance of vital functions of a critically ill or comatose person or a person undergoing surgery.
- (medicine) The equipment and special procedures used for life support.
- (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.
- 2011, Francis Tapon, The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us, p. 135
- As we've seen, Belarus is a Soviet time capsule that continues only because Russia is keeping it on life support.
- 2011, Francis Tapon, The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us, p. 135
- Russian: жизнеобеспе́че́ние
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