Synonyms for life support
life sup·port

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1. life-support system, life supportnoun

   equipment that makes life possible in otherwise deadly environmental conditions

   "the astronauts relied on their life-support systems"

   Synonyms:
   life-support system

2. life-support system, life supportadjective

   medical equipment that assists or replaces important bodily functions and so enables a patient to live who otherwise might not survive

   "the patient is on life support"

   Synonyms:
   life-support system

3. life-supportadjective

   of or pertaining to equipment or methods used to sustain life

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1. • Equipment

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1. life support

   Read the full text of the Life Support poem by Kurt Philip Behm on the Poetry.com website.

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1. Chris Bowler:

   Plankton are much more than just food for the whales, although tiny, these organisms are a vital part of the Earth's life support system, providing half of the oxygen generated each year on Earth by photosynthesis and lying at the base of marine food chains on which all other ocean life depends.

2. Delta BingoCEO Cam Johnston:

   If you cover it, you might as well take away someones life support.

3. Buzz Aldrin:

   From there, people can make the final assembly and check out of all the habitation and final supplies and all the life support systems, if they are successful doing that, they can go down and land [on Mars].

4. Erica Groshen:

   Our economy is on life support now, we will be testing the waters in the next few months to see if it can emerge safely from our policy-induced coma.

5. Sharlene Miller:

   Sharlene Miller, Sharlene Miller, told the BBC. Millerdeveloped pneumonia and his condition grew worse.His kidneys also began to fail and he developed blood clots. In the week between Normas funeral and her partners funeral, each day Scott seemed to deteriorate and they were running out of options. We were at the point where we were maybe going to have to make a decision about turning off his life support, Sharlene Miller said, per the BBC. The same staff that helped Sharlene Miller also were with his mother during her last days. MAINE HOSPITAL SEES CORONAVIRUS RESURGENCE AFTER VISITORS LEARN OF POSITIVE TEST RESULTS WHILE ON TRIP The staff in the hospital were absolutely amazing, two or three of the nurses who treated me were with my mum when she passed away. Every part of the NHS was amazing. Sharlene Miller warns people to be vigilant against the virus and not becomplacent.