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Descriptor
English
:
Life Support Systems
Descriptor
Spanish
:
Sistemas de Manutención de la Vida
Descriptor
Portuguese
:
Sistemas de Manutenção da Vida
Tree Number:
N06.230.150.391
Definition
English
:
Systems that provide all or most of the items necessary for maintaining
life
and
health
. Provisions are made for the supplying of
oxygen
,
food
,
water
,
temperature
and
pressure
control
, disposition of
carbon dioxide
and body waste. The milieu may be a
spacecraft
, a submarine, or the surface of the
moon
. In
medical care
, usually under hospital conditions,
LIFE SUPPORT CARE
is available. (From Webster's New Collegiate
Dictionary
)
Indexing Annotation
English
:
do not confuse with
LIFE SUPPORT CARE
: read MeSH definition
See Related
English
:
Incubators
History Note
English
:
91(66); was see under SEALED CABIN ECOLOGY 1966-90
Allowable Qualifiers
English
:
CL
classification
EC
economics
ES
ethics
HI
history
IS
instrumentation
LJ
legislation & jurisprudence
ST
standards
SN
statistics & numerical data
UT
utilization
Record Number:
8197
Unique Identifier:
D008021
Occurrence in VHL
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