SURVIVAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does survival mean? 

• SURVIVAL (noun)
  The noun SURVIVAL has 3 senses:

1. a state of surviving; remaining alive

2. a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment

3. something that survives

  Familiarity information: SURVIVAL used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURVIVAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of surviving; remaining alive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

endurance; survival

Hypernyms ("survival" is a kind of...):

aliveness; animation; life; living (the condition of living or the state of being alive)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "survival"):

subsistence (a means of surviving)

Derivation:

survive (support oneself)

survive (continue to live and avoid dying)

survive (continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

natural selection; selection; survival; survival of the fittest

Hypernyms ("survival" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Something that survives

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("survival" is a kind of...):

continuance; continuation (the act of continuing an activity without interruption)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "survival"):

custom; usage; usance (accepted or habitual practice)

hangover; holdover (something that has survived from the past)

 Context examples 

Regardless of donor type, survival rates were high for infants transplanted within the first 3.5 months of life and those of any age without infection at time of transplant.

(Early treatment benefits infants with severe combined immunodeficiency, NIH)

AR is overexpressed in certain breast and prostate cancers and is involved in tumor cell proliferation and survival.

(Androgen Receptor Antisense Oligonucleotide EZN-4176, NCI Thesaurus)

In the total study population, treatment with 100 mg of low-dose aspirin per day did not affect survival free of dementia or disability.

(Daily low-dose aspirin found to have no effect on healthy life span in older people, National Institutes of Health)

These are short pieces of RNA designed and built with specific sequences that interfere with production of key proteins crucial for survival of the virus without interfering with any processes in uninfected cells.

(Lipid Nanoparticle Therapeutic Treats Ebola in Monkeys, NIH)

EGFR, overexpressed by a variety of cancers, plays a key role in tumor cell proliferation and survival.

(Anti-EGFR TAP Antibody-drug Conjugate IMGN289, NCI Thesaurus)

Altogether, AAT may attenuate acute graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) and may facilitate graft acceptance and survival.

(Alpha-1-Proteinase Inhibitor Human, NCI Thesaurus)

A University of Washington team has discovered that this ancient survival strategy is still being used in low-oxygen parts of the marine environment.

(Arsenic-breathing microbes discovered in the tropical Pacific Ocean, National Science Foundation)

Phosphorylation of Bad by AKT blocks anti-apoptotic activity to promote cell survival.

(AKT Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A group of enzymes involved in several processes related to cell growth and survival.

(Akt, NCI Dictionary)

Median survival 113 weeks in males, 108 weeks in females.

(ACI, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)