Reanimatology
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The branch of medicine that deals with the resuscitation of critically ill patients. dated, uncountable
"Dr. Shvetsky, who works at a veterans’ hospital in Russia, is far from a typical sports doctor: His subspecialty in anesthesia is reanimatology, the science aimed at reviving people who are clinically dead, meaning that their blood has stopped circulating and they have stopped breathing."
Example
More examples"Dr. Shvetsky, who works at a veterans’ hospital in Russia, is far from a typical sports doctor: His subspecialty in anesthesia is reanimatology, the science aimed at reviving people who are clinically dead, meaning that their blood has stopped circulating and they have stopped breathing."
Etymology
From reanimate + -ology.
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