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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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life support system [′līf sə‚pȯrt ‚sis·təm]
(engineering)
A system providing atmospheric control and monitoring, such as a breathing mixture supply system, air purification and filtering system, or carbon dioxide removal system; used in oceanographic submersibles and spacecraft.
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Just as our banking sector is struggling with its debts -- and paradoxically also facing calls for a return to so-called 'old-fashioned' traditional thinking -- so nature's life-support systems are failing to cope with the debts we have built up there too.
Prince Charles warns of evironmental doom by AFP / AFP European Edition
Just as our banking sector is struggling with its debts -- and paradoxically also facing calls for a return to so-called 'old-fashioned' traditional thinking -- so nature's life-support systems are failing to cope with the debts we have built up there too.
Prince Charles warns of evironmental doom by AFP / AFP Global Edition
A South Korean hospital has removed a life-support system from a comatose patient, officials have said, upholding a court ruling which approved a euthanasia request for the first time in the country.
S.Korean hospital enforces 'right to die' ruling by AFP / AFP Asian Edition
 
 
 
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