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Definition of Life-sustaining
1. Adjective. Performing an essential function in the living body. "Life-giving love and praise"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Life-sustaining
Literary usage of Life-sustaining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Assisted Suicide edited by Michael Bilirakis (1998)
"life-sustaining treatment is any medical treatment that serves to prolong life
without ... life-sustaining treatment includes, but is not limited to, ..."
2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1853)
"... healthful, and life-sustaining. It was what the old dying patriarch demanded
of his son Esau, promising him in requital the blessing of his last breath. ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1877)
"Import into the family the law of the society, and let children from infancy
upward have life-sustaining supplies proportioned to their life-sustaining ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"He docs not prove the coincidence of life-sustaining and pleasant activities.
He assumes throughout that the pleasant is the opposite of what is painful, ..."
5. Death by Default: A Policy of Fatal Neglect in China's State Orphanages by Robin Munro (1996)
"The primary consideration for decisions regarding life-sustaining treatment ...
life-sustaining treatment may be withheld or withdrawn from a newborn upon ..."
6. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"He does not prove the coincidence of life-sustaining and pleasant activities.
He assumes throughout that the pleasant is the opposite of what is painful, ..."
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