单词 | life-saving |
释义 | life-saving 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A life-saving drug, operation, or action is one that saves someone's life or is likely to save their life. ...life-saving drugs such as antibiotics. She decided her child should go to America for life-saving treatment. 2. uncountable noun You use life-saving to refer to the skills and activities connected with rescuing people, especially people who are drowning. She teaches swimming, lifesaving and water aerobics. Collocations: life-saving equipment Taxpayers will be furious that 1.5million of their money has been spent, and yet the plastic wrapping hasn't even been taken off the life-saving equipment. The Sun Few pupils cannot use a fire extinguisher and all schools have such life-saving equipment. Times, Sunday Times They carry first aid and life-saving equipment, including a defibrillator. Times, Sunday Times Local authorities can apply to fit the cheap, but life-saving equipment to traffic lights. Times, Sunday Times From the crowd, a lifeguard rushes to the scene and summons a drone carrying life-saving equipment. Times, Sunday Times We are offering this life-saving procedure to more and more patients. The Sun A hospital spokeswoman said the amputation was necessary as 'an emergency life-saving procedure'. The Sun How would he feel if a surgeon stopped a life-saving procedure on him because they might over-run their shift? The Sun If the state offered you a life-saving procedure, you were given the option of paying for it or attending a month's residential course on improving your lifestyle. Times, Sunday Times We are immensely lucky to live in a country where we are given the opportunity to have these life-saving procedures in the first place. The Sun This meant that suddenly there were six people who could receive life-saving surgery simultaneously. Times, Sunday Times He required five hours of life-saving surgery and significant amounts of blood. The Sun This film follows him on a two-week visit, during which time he sees a queue of desperate patients and performs life-saving surgery. Times, Sunday Times Their survival chances are worse because of delays in seeking diagno-sis, higher risk of other diseases and lower rates of life-saving surgery. The Sun All the way through her brain tumour woes, she's been determined to do things her way - even if that means refusing life-saving surgery. The Sun Just one in four of us has signed up for the list, yet more than 10,000 people are waiting for a life-saving transplant. The Sun He had hoped for a life-saving transplant, but was too ill for the op. The Sun Vital hours have been cut from the journey, allowing surgeons to begin a life-saving transplant. Times, Sunday Times Every year hundreds of patients miss out on the chance of a life-saving transplant because donor organs are incompatible or damaged. Times, Sunday Times But as the medical team prepared for his life-saving transplant, the potential donor's family began to agonise over what to do. The Sun Those who knowingly withheld potentially life-saving information should be held accountable, as they would in any other walk of life. Times, Sunday Times Online access to health records could also be used by patients who are overseas on holiday or business, providing foreign doctors with potentially life-saving information. Times, Sunday Times This led the two experts to question what criteria the clinicians were using to choose which patients should be denied potentially life-saving treatment. Times,Sunday Times Every day we facilitate three potentially life-saving transplants. The Sun What about testing potentially life-saving medicines on rabbits? Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 救生的 Japanese: 救命の |
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