mouth-to-mouth
adjective
Denoting a method of artificial respiration in which a person breathes into an unconscious patient’s lungs through their mouth: mouth-to-mouth resuscitation...
- In a recent meeting, medical directors of emergency medical services agreed that attempting to talk 911 callers through mouth-to-mouth procedures wasted valuable time.
- I tried anything to get her to wake, but she wouldn't open her eyes; the only way left was to do the mouth-to-mouth procedure.
- However, if you're not trained in emergency procedures, doctors recommend skipping mouth-to-mouth rescue breathing and proceeding directly to chest compression.
noun [mass noun]
Mouth-to-mouth respiration: Stacey needed mouth-to-mouth...
- All of our staff are fully trained in First Aid and a teacher, Robert Marks, administered mouth-to-mouth.
- I gave her mouth-to-mouth as my housemate Charlotte rang for an ambulance.
- ‘The doorman who gave her mouth-to-mouth received a commendation from the paramedics,’ he said.
Rhymes
- harmless
- harmlessly
- harmlessness
- harmolodic
- harmolodics
- harmonic
- harmonica
- harmonically
- harmonic minor
- harmonic minor scale
- harmonic motion
- harmonic progression
- harmonic series
- harmonious
- harmoniously
- harmoniousness
- harmonise
- harmonist
- harmonium
- harmonization
- harmonize
- harmonizer
- harmony
- harmony of the spheres
- Harmsworth, Alfred