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mouth-to-mouth

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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To do the running, jumping, scuba diving, and to cap it all off with a mouth-to-mouth kiss with Harmon.

This will not be forgotten in the mouth-to-mouth combat of the primaries–and neither will his Medicaid decision.

Roman poets such as Catullus and Ovid celebrated the kiss and members of the populace were avid mouth-to-mouth practitioners.

It is so ingrained in the race-consciousness by mouth-to-mouth utterance that it seems the profoundest of truths.

During their sanguinary meals there is never a scuffle between the feasters; nothing but mere mouth-to-mouth thefts.

Get to know the six steps that are outlined for mouth-to-mouth rescue breathing.

In mouth-to-mouth breathing, an adult's lungs should be filled 12 times per minute and a child's 20.

The best and simplest way of doing this is to use mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration.

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