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KISS OF LIFE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does kiss of life mean?
• KISS OF LIFE (noun)
The noun KISS OF LIFE has 1 sense:
1. an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing; attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen
Familiarity information: KISS OF LIFE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing; attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
cardiac resuscitation; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; CPR; kiss of life; mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
Hypernyms ("kiss of life" is a kind of...):
emergency procedure ((medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency))
resuscitation (the act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness)
Meronyms (parts of "kiss of life"):
cardiac massage; heart massage (an emergency procedure that employs rhythmic compression of the heart (either through the chest wall or, during surgery, directly to the heart) in an attempt to maintain circulation during cardiac arrest)
artificial respiration (an emergency procedure whereby breathing is maintained artificially)
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