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Definition of Resuscitation

1. Noun. The act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness. "Although he was apparently drowned, resuscitation was accomplished by artificial respiration"

Definition of Resuscitation

1. n. The act of resuscitating, or state of being resuscitated.

Definition of Resuscitation

1. Noun. The act of resuscitating. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Resuscitation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Resuscitation

1. The restoration to life or consciousness of one apparently dead, it includes such measures as artificial respiration and cardiac massage. Origin: L. Resuscitare = to revive This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Resuscitation

Literary usage of Resuscitation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1908)
"Previous Work on resuscitation 379 III. The Experimental Results: The General Conditions Affecting resuscitation 384 The resuscitation of the Blood 386 The ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1862)
"Researches on resuscitation.—Dr. BW RICHARDSON read before the Physiological Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Medical Science, ..."

3. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1888)
"resuscitation OF ASPHYXIATED NEWBORN INFANTS BY THE SUSPENSION METHOD. ... For many years the resuscitation of euch children has claimed my attention, ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1862)
"Physiological Researches on resuscitation. By B. "W. RICHARDSON. MD, 3f.A. The modes of death to which ... The modes of resuscitation he dwelt upon were—1, ..."

5. Legal Medicine by Gilbert Holland Stewart (1910)
"resuscitation.—While rules to govern in the resuscitation of the drowned are ... It must be borne in mind that what these efforts at resuscitation seek to ..."

6. Experimental Pharmacology by Hugh McGuigan (1919)
"THE THIRD resuscitation COMMISSION. The subject of resuscitation is so important that we cannot do better than include a report of the Third resuscitation ..."

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