Definition of "life-support" []

• Of or relating to the methods, equipment, or conditions needed to sustain life. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "CHALLENGE 3: To demonstrate a long-term life-support system in space."
• "It is called life-support in the medical profession, and it's called death knell in the economic world."
• "What his wife had referred to as his life-support system was a tangle of translucent tubes, oxygen bottles, IV sacs, a catheter, and electronic monitors that, upon first glance, made me think that perhaps technology might give Troy another season to run."