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life support
(redirected from Artificial life support)

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life support noun artificial maintenance of life, conninuance of life through medical equipment, extension of life by technological means, sustenance of life by artificial means Generally: being kept alive, fostering of life, life retention, preservation of life, prolongation of existence


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Quinlan was kept alive only by the use of artificial life support machinery that her husband and physicians sought to discontinue.
We had never written down where we wanted to be buried, and whether, if we were hopelessly incapacitated, we would want artificial life support measures to be continued," she says.
Yet it is kept on artificial life support by its main bank, Sumitomo, which is lending it money to pay the interest.
 
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