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resuscitation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From Middle English resuscitacion, from Old French ressuscitacion and Latin resuscitātio. Equivalent to resuscitate + -ion.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of resuscitating.
   • If the depletion had cured a bad cold, or averted a slight fever, and the patient came down declaring she was well, yet looking very ill, and an officious caller recommended "beef-tea, calves' foot jellies, or a glass of old port," Lady Anne, who well knew the value of such nutriments, seeing she constantly used them, would observe in reply, "at her time of life there is an innate power of resuscitation, which operates better without such stimulants, in my opinion;"... 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 230:

Forms

Deriveds

mouth-to-mouth resuscitation · cryoresuscitation · nonresuscitation · postresuscitation · underresuscitation · cardiopulmonary resuscitation · overresuscitation · autoresuscitation

Translations (19)

et elustamine (the act of resuscitating) · ro reînviere (the act of resuscitating) · ar اِنْعَاش (the act of resuscitating) · ru реаними́рование (the act of resuscitating) · ro reanimare (the act of resuscitating) · pl reanimacja (the act of resuscitating) · es reanimación (the act of resuscitating) · sv återupplivning (the act of resuscitating) · fr résuscitation (the act of resuscitating) · bg съживяване (the act of resuscitating) · pl resuscytacja (the act of resuscitating) · es resucitación (the act of resuscitating) · fi elvytys (the act of resuscitating) · tr resüsitasyon (the act of resuscitating) · bg идване в съзнание (the act of resuscitating) · et reanimatsioon (the act of resuscitating) · de Wiederbelebung (the act of resuscitating) · ro resuscitare (the act of resuscitating) · hu újraélesztés (the act of resuscitating)