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life-support definition

life·-support (līf′sə pôrt′)

adjective

  1. Engineering designating or of any system that enables normal living in space, under water, etc.
  2. Med. designating or of any device or system, usually connected directly to a patient, that can take over for a vital body organ or function that is failing or has failed

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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