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Definition of life-sustaining in English: life-sustainingadjective Serving to continue or support life. a measure giving courts a greater chance to review decisions to end life-sustaining care Example sentencesExamples - As temperatures rise, deserts will spread and life-sustaining weather patterns such as the North Indian monsoon could be disrupted.
- A protein-laden breakfast of eggs, bacon and sausages provides you with many more life-sustaining nutrients than a typical breakfast cereal or a couple of slices of toast.
- We truly appreciate his selecting us as beneficiaries of this life-sustaining gift to our children.
- In a 'living will' prepared in 2004, he had stated that he wanted to receive no life-sustaining medical treatment in such circumstances.
- Sometimes described as our 'life-sustaining hormone', cortisol is produced in the adrenal glands and is responsible for metabolism, energy levels, blood pressure and combating illness.
- The similarity between the rocks that trapped it and those on Mars raises the hope that comparable life-sustaining water could lie buried beneath the red planet's surface.
- More than 90 percent of the iron in an adult human's 25 trillion life-sustaining red blood cells is recycled from worn-out cells.
- Such an attack could close businesses and federal agencies, disrupt hospital service and communication, potentially knock out medical devices such as insulin pumps and pacemakers, and knock offline life-sustaining, critical infrastructure, including communications, energy networks, and food and water distribution networks.
- Matthew, a 2-year-old Antioch boy who had waited 15 months for a life-sustaining kidney and liver transplant, had his new organs.
- The new evidence pre-dates previous estimates of a life-sustaining oxygenation event by more than 50 million years.
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