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life support system
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life support system: see artificial life support artificial life support, systems that use medical technology to aid, support, or replace a vital function of the body that has been seriously damaged. Such techniques include artificial pacemakers , internal defibrillators , dialysis machines (see kidney, artificial
..... Click the link for more information. ; Life Support for Human Spaceflight under space science space science, body of scientific knowledge as it relates to space exploration ; it is sometimes also called astronautics. Space science draws on the conventional sciences of physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering, as well as requiring specific research of its
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If that consultative body agrees that there is no reasonable possibility of Karen's ever emerging from her present comatose condition to a cognitive, sapient state, the present life-support system may be withdrawn .
The hospital ethics committee--then and now by Thompson, Richard E. / Physician Executive
Two days later, the resident underwent left hip replacement surgery, but tragically had to remain on a life-support system following surgery.
When residents attack residents by Williams, Linda / Nursing Homes
No living creature is 'viable' independently of an enveloping life-support system.
Cantankerous common sense by Canfield, Kevin / Commonweal
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