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LIFE-SUPPORT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does life-support mean?
• LIFE-SUPPORT (adjective)
The adjective LIFE-SUPPORT has 1 sense:
1. of or pertaining to equipment or methods used to sustain life
Familiarity information: LIFE-SUPPORT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or pertaining to equipment or methods used to sustain life
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
life-support system (medical equipment that assists or replaces important bodily functions and so enables a patient to live who otherwise might not survive)
life-support system (equipment that makes life possible in otherwise deadly environmental conditions)
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