mouth-to-mouth

British  

adjective

1. designating a method of artificial respiration involving blowing air rhythmically into the mouth of a person who has stopped breathing, to stimulate return of spontaneous breathing

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Example Sentences

To perform their analysis, the team first needed to define what counts as a kiss, since many mouth-to-mouth actions resemble the behavior without being the same thing.

From Science Daily

They defined kissing as non-aggressive, mouth-to-mouth contact that does not involve food transfer.

From Science Daily

“She was responding to the chest compressions. She was responding to the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in a positive way,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times

She had blood on her mouth, possibly from giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

From Seattle Times

One night over dinner in 2022, the couple discussed — as scientists in love do — a new genetic study that linked modern herpes variants to mouth-to-mouth kissing in the Bronze Age, roughly 3300 B.C. to 1200 B.C.

From New York Times