resuscitantn.adj.

1749 J. Edwards Let. 23 May in S. E. Dwight Life President Edwards (1830) xviii. 277 It was a great resuscitant, as well as encouragement to me; and I trust, has been so to many others..who are concerned for the prosperity of Zion.

1827 Lancet 15 Dec. 423/2 When the foetus is still-born, the artificial respiration should be diligently tried; indeed, if this and the warm-bath fail us, I know of no other resuscitants on which we can confidently rely.

1849 London Med. Gaz. 9 475/1 I ordered him resuscitants, and everything that might conduce to arouse him from a state of stupor, and excite the vital energy.

1853 Q. Rev. Mar. 329 That occasionally useful resuscitant of dead knowledge yclept Notes and Queries—the antiquary's news-paper.

1904 Dental Digest 10 1186 In all ordinary cases I use nothing but cold water in the face to revive a patient, yet it is always well to have within your reach proper resuscitants.

1960 N. A. Harper in L. M. Monheim Gen. Anesthesia in Dental Pract. xviii. 358 It is important legally that the proper physical equipment be on hand, together with such instruments, resuscitants, and medicaments as the reasonably careful and skillful practitioner of the locality would have available.

2000 Jrnl. Trauma 49 200 The pressor action of HBOCs [= hemoglobin-based oxygen-carrying compounds] must be attenuated..for these compounds to be safe, effective resuscitants in humans.

1860 J. E. Worcester Dict. Eng. Lang. Resuscitant, one who resuscitates.

1894 S. Mackaye Father Ambrose 279 She had been a moribund and a resuscitant!

1998 S. T. Davis in S. T. Davis et al. Resurrection vii. 132 The resuscitant must inevitably die a second time at some later point.

1840 Citizen 2 118 On the savage Caspian shore Have I felt gaunt Rebellion fettered down, Only to find her here resuscitant On mine own shore?

1855 P. J. Bailey Mystic & Other Poems 53 He, Ivy-like, lived, and died, and again lived, Resuscitant.

1881 Canada Lancet 13 106/2 At a later period he [sc. Broca] published a memoir on resuscitant animals.

1946 Yale Law Jrnl. 55 819 It may well have been the moral attitude of certain justices which predisposed the Court to look askance at efforts of the resuscitant liquor industry to escape regulation.

1932 A. E. Webster Man. for Dental Assistants xii. 320 Amyl nitrite pearls which may be crushed in a sponge or napkin and held under the patient's nose have a resuscitant value.

1943 Science 24 Dec. 549/2 These [requisite conditions] are..(4) that the valves and bag shall be so arranged that the resuscitant gas flows to the mask only during inspiration.

1995 Internat. Jrnl. Food Microbiol. 26 99 The inoculum is mixed with a small volume of resuscitant (non-selective) agar.