life support
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life support
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- An artificial system designed to provide oxygen and other conditions necessary for human life in an inhospitable environment. The more immediate concern is the life support systems. Those units are fifty years old—a conservative estimate. If the air scrubbers stop working, we die. If the pressure regulators stop working, we die. Artificial gravity fails? We die. You get the picture.
- The maintenance of vital functions of a critically ill or comatose person or a person undergoing surgery.
- The equipment and special procedures used for life support.
- A means of sustaining existence or continuation of something, usually in an artificial manner when it should have changed or terminated in its natural environment. As we've seen, Belarus is a Soviet time capsule that continues only because Russia is keeping it on life support.
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noun system for providing oxygen
| 中文 | 生命支持系統 /生命支持系统 shēngmìng zhīchí xìtǒng, 生命維持系統 /生命维持系统 shēngmìng wéichí xìtǒng, 生命支持設備 /生命支持设备 shēngmìng zhīchí shèbèi, 人工生命維持系統 /人工生命维持系统 |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Sauerstoffversorgung |
| Русский | жизнеобеспе́че́ние žizneobespéčénije |
noun maintenance of vital functions
| 中文 | 維生 /维生 wéishēng |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | lebenserhaltende Maßnahmen |
noun equipment and procedures
| 中文 | 維生設備 /维生设备 wéishēng shèbèi |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | lebenserhaltende Ausrüstung, lebenserhaltende Apparate |
noun figurative: means of sustaining existence
| 中文 | 人工維持 /人工维持 réngōng wéichí |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Tropf |
Talk about this word "life support." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/life%20support. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. life support. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/life%20support "life support." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/life%20support.
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@misc{life_support_2026,
title = {life support},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/life%20support},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
