What does life-support mean?
Definitions for life-support
life-sup·port
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Princeton's WordNet
life-support system, life supportnoun
equipment that makes life possible in otherwise deadly environmental conditions
"the astronauts relied on their life-support systems"
life-support system, life supportadjective
medical equipment that assists or replaces important bodily functions and so enables a patient to live who otherwise might not survive
"the patient is on life support"
life-supportadjective
of or pertaining to equipment or methods used to sustain life
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of life-support in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of life-support in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of life-support in a Sentence
Scott's on life support. Once his family is in place they will discontinue life support. I'm going to lose the one person on this planet I've spent more of my life with than anyone else, my heart is broken and I'm so very f—ing sad.
It really speaks to the fact that the challenging job of a caregiver is not necessarily restricted to a few months before one dies, certainly individuals are more vulnerable at the end of life. Support for caregivers may be more urgent at the end of life but important through critical illness.
When I talk to friends in Canada, the U.K., Australia and elsewhere, people express concern about the United States in terms of our ability and our institutions to thrive and continue after what happened with the election of 2020. They worry that democracy is on life support in the United States.
The problem is, when you buy oil from Venezuela, essentially what you're doing is you're putting dollars in to prop up the economy and more entrench the Maduro regime, and at the same time, the only reason why this regime is existing at all, is on life support, is because of support from the Chinese, the Russians and the Cubans. So you have really the most detestable regime in Latin America that’s basically subsisting on these external actors.
[ They ] immediately put her on a ventilator and from there she just went downhill, by that evening, she was on life support.
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