lifesaving

American  

[lahyf-sayv-ing] / ˈlaɪfˌseɪv ɪŋ /

adjective

1. (especially of a medical treatment or facility) preventing deaths.

2. used in rescuing people who are in danger of drowning.

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noun

1. the work of rescuing people in danger of drowning.

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lifesaving

The institute focuses on advancing research into difficult and complex diseases while helping promising laboratory findings move more quickly toward potentially lifesaving treatments for patients.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

The United Nations says around 800,000 people can no longer receive lifesaving aid and more than 250,000 have been displaced, after an informal ceasefire collapsed in the summer.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

"But several lifesaving supply lines in WHO's Aden warehouse are already at zero stock, including trauma kits and essential medicines," Heinzelmann said, appealing for more funding.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Watch the video above to see how Dr. Ben Bassin breaks down the lifesaving secrets behind hospital design, from swapping beds for chairs to a Disney-inspired ward layout.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Although these deceptively simple ancient flutes are almost all that survives of Palaeolithic music, acoustic scientists have recently made an extraordinary discovery about the lifesaving importance of music to cave-dwellers of this period.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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